OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexed Snapshots

[jauntywundrkind]

> Snapshots are proudly hosted on Cloudflare R2, a storage service optimized for fast, global scalable access to large datasets.

Little curious to hear how this goes for everyone. R2's promise of infinite egress feels huge. But there's some grumbles in HN threads here & there that folks tend to get forced into more expensive contracts after they actually start using R2. Folks downloading ~90GB data sets daily sounds… taxing.

It sounds like OSM themselves offer diffs? I assume there's something about the format of the diffs, something to do with indexing, that makes full daily refreshes compelling? I don't quite understand the excitement for this release; I'm not well versed here & it feels like I'm missing some key technical reasons why this would be popular.

[rustc]

It would be interesting to see how much you can push this. At $0.36/million requests, this would be $0.36 for 90PB of data. Serving 90PB from AWS S3 would cost over $5M if my calculations are correct. Has anyone tried serving petabytes of data from R2?

[pbsurf]

This is great! I recently built a simple project to generate and serve vector tiles on demand from a GOL file: https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles

[linsomniac]

Sounds interesting and built up fine, but I had ChatGPT build a leaflet viewer pointing at localhost:8080/tiles/z/x/y and I'm just getting 404s on http://localhost:8080/tiles/6/12/24. A few words in the README about "what to do next" or "how to tell if it's working" would be appreciated, though I realize your target audience is probably more familiar with maps than I am.

[n4r9]

Interesting. Even OSM's own server only releases a weekly full planet PBF [0]. However I believe it releases diffs more regularly, which I guess is how OPD is creating a daily planet PBF.

[0] https://planet.openstreetmap.org/pbf/

[leobuskin]

it just uses osmtools/osmupdate [0] to update the official weekly release

[0] https://github.com/openplanetdata/osm/blob/924d680ff8df6263f...

[durkie]

Wow this is my first time hearing about the Geodesk format. It seems super useful...I do a ton of OSM data processing, and I can't really do anything with it until it's loaded in to PostGIS, so this would save a ton of time/storage space over that.

[tomrod]

What a great initiative! I need to look more into it to determine how it relates to Geofrabrik's data caches.

I initially thought it was Planet serving up a research grade data cache, which would really help unlock innovation in the earth observation space.

[cyberax]

Can Geodesk be used for tile rendering? I have a self-hosted OSM renderer, and it's decidedly not very fast.

[morgenkaffee]

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.

[Aachen]

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

[ajsnigrutin]

Is there some offline viewer for this? Something that would make offline maps (maybe even with search and navigation) possible on computers?

[aeuropean12]

Well done! Great initiative, thumbs up.