Open Planet Data is an open initiative dedicated to making open data related to our beautiful planet Earth more accessible and efficient to use.Our first project offers daily snapshots of…
Open Planet Data is an open initiative dedicated to making open data related to our beautiful planet Earth more accessible and efficient to use.
Our first project offers daily snapshots of OpenStreetMap in PBF and GOL formats.
Snapshots are proudly hosted on Cloudflare R2, a storage service optimized for fast, global scalable access to large datasets. Files in GOL format are indexed variants of PBF versions using Geodesk to enable lightning-fast spatial queries.
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By jauntywundrkind 2025-06-1118:271 reply > 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.
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?
By jt_b 2025-06-1122:43 Not sure about petabytes, but pretty sure Brandon Liu of Protomaps is hosting all the daily protomaps extracts via R2. Not sure what the egress usage is.
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
By linsomniac 2025-06-1314:26 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.
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.
By leobuskin 2025-06-1117:43 it just uses osmtools/osmupdate [0] to update the official weekly release
[0] https://github.com/openplanetdata/osm/blob/924d680ff8df6263f...
