pypsa-meets-earth / earth-osm

Export infrastructure data from OpenStreetMap using Python
https://pypsa-meets-earth.github.io/earth-osm/
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Implement or test download accelerators #7

Closed pz-max closed 1 year ago

pz-max commented 2 years ago

Just saw a comment about download accerlators. I think raising this as an enhancement/feature request will help track this performance opportunity. Checking out the commented package pySmartDL, it looks the package is not too active anymore -- maybe there are new alternatives?

The pySmartDL package and the author also refer to a couple of HTTP websites (not HTTPS). Why HTTP is no not secure is written in this article. This can be dangerous and opens the user to a number of attacks:

Anyways, the concept and application of download accelerators can enhance the package. Would be an awesome feature.

mnm-matin commented 1 year ago

download accelerators can be damaging to server infrastructure, especially free hosting sites like geofabrik. This will not be implemented. There are ideas to host filtered primary features in future versions.