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Re:Switch to OpenStreetMap by nathancahill on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:49AM (#21772228)
Hmm, I run a handleful of OSM servers with similar specs and it takes a little a day or 2 to import the world to a HDD. Here's some benchmarks. It definitely helps to have a beefy server: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql/benchmarks

A Postgres dump would be massive.

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Re:Switch to OpenStreetMap by growlist on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:23AM (#21773219)
> A Postgres dump would be massive.

Indeed - it inflates to hundreds of GB during my import process.

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