Overpass API developpement

[Roland Olbricht <>]

Hi Rory,

thank you for asking back. The mail did not arrive on the list, it is 
not in the list archive:
http://listes.openstreetmap.fr/wws/arc/overpass/2017-11/

For that reason I have reposted it on the list now.

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: How does one start diff updates if you use download_clone.sh?
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:36:13 +0100
> From: Rory McCann 
> <>
> To: Overpass Dev 
> <>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently set up an overpass server, and noticed that the wiki
> instructions¹ now recommends using this new `download_clone.sh` script
> instead of a bzip2'ed XML file. So I did that and it was very fast,
> which is a great improvement.
>
> However I'm not sure how to then set up data updates/diff application.
> The instructions² talk about looking at the `state.txt` file, which I
> don't have (since I don't have a planet file).
>
> How do I enabled data replication/fetching/applying now?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rory
>
>
> ¹ 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Installation#Populating_the_DB 
>
> ² 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Installation#Applying_minutely_.28or_hourly.2C_or_daily.29_diffs 

Thank you for bringing up the issue. The official documentation also 
misses out on that point:
http://dev.overpass-api.de/no_frills.html#minute_updates

Please use the content of the file $DB_DIR/replicate_id
An alternative could be to use the script bin/fetch_osc_and_apply.sh 
which reads the content of that file automatically.

I have fixed the documentation.

Best regards,

Roland