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A comment on OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexed Snapshots.

Re:OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexe... by morgenkaffee on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @12:31PM (#44249283)
Well done. Every conpany with maps otherwise needs their own daily diff server.

The challenge tho is running it over years reliably especially if something in upstream OSM breaks.

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Re:OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexe... by Aachen on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:29PM (#44252511)
How else were you going to do it than ingesting the new data constantly, if you're a company who needs regular updates? You need a server, either to pull the whole planet file over and over or to pull the trickle of minute by minute diffs. Might as well opt for diffs
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