[Live-demo] What dataset should your application use on the LiveDVD?

[Cameron Shorter]

On 16/06/10 08:47, Hamish wrote:
> Cameron wrote:
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>> I've created an "install_gisdata.sh" script, which downloads the
>> following naturalearth datasets:
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> great, thanks.
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>> Hamish, I've copied the installing of the Barcelona.osm dataset from
>> install_osm.sh, except instead of calling it barcelona.osm,
>> I'm calling the dataset highlightedcity.osm
>> The reason for this is that I'm wanting to ensure that we can change the
>> dataset year to year without effecting application examples which use
>> the dataset.
>> Is this realistic? Can applications determine the area of interest from
>> an OSM file?
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>> Hamish, could you please review this script, and if you are happy with
>> it, remove the corresponding lines from install_osm.sh
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> We have to change the bounding box anyway, so the filename is not that
> much extra effort once every 6 months to update. Anyway the Xapi/OSM data
> download takes about 20 minutes to extract so for the test builds I've
> stashed a cached copy on the download server but will re-enable the
> fetching of the most up-to-date version for the final RCs. i.e. manual
> intervention is required by the OSM install script maintainer anyway.
> (which happens to be me right now)
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> What I'll do is keep the heavy lifting of the download in install_osm.sh,
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ok, sounds fine.
> but change install_gisdata.sh to make a symlink called feature_city.osm.bz2
> to provide a steady filename for tutorials and e.g. any PostGIS data upload
> to use.
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yes, good idea to use a symlink. That is a better solution.
I suggest we move the OSM data to the data/gisdata/ directory rather 
than data/osm directory, so that we keep all common data in the one 
place. That ok with you Hamish?
> honestly I can't promise that I'll be able to even quickly review any
> scripts over the next couple of weeks; but I'll try to find the time
> somehow.
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While you always have good programming tips when you review, I'm 
comfortable enough with my programming skills that your review is 
optional. I'm just making sure I'm not stepping on your toes by 
suggesting you review what I've done.

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