Post about OSM planet torrents

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+      <title>You wouldn't download a planet</title>
+      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:06:35 +0200</pubDate>
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+        <p>There are a whole lot of feeds for OpenStreetMap, and since I like both OpenStreetMap and, of course, feeds, I will be talking about a bunch of them over multiple posts. To start with, here's a feed of torrents that you can put into any BitTorrent client that supports feeds, like <a href="https://deluge-torrent.org/" target="_blank">Deluge</a>, to automatically download a weekly export of the entire map. That would be over 1.7 terabyte of <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_XML" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap XML</a> data, but they provide a better format called <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF_Format" target="_blank">PBF</a> based on <a href="https://protobuf.dev/" target="_blank">protobuf</a>, that reduces this down to about 70 gigabytes.</p>
+        <p>Multiple RSS feeds are available, to get the PBF version, the BZ2-compressed XML version, or the entire history of the map and not just its current state. Those are documented <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#BitTorrent_RSS.2FAtom_feed" target="_blank">on the OSM wiki</a>.</p>
+        <p>I really like the name of this thing. <em>Planet</em>. You can just… download the whole planet. This is how far we've come as a society. Why stop at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJDk2w11H4" target="_blank">downloading a car</a> when you can download a planet?</p>
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