Improve Docs with --pgosm-date details and behavior

docs/book.toml

@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ git-repository-url = "https://github.com/rustprooflabs/pgosm-flex"
 git-repository-icon = "fa-github"
 edit-url-template = "https://github.com/rustprooflabs/pgosm-flex/edit/main/docs/{path}"
 
-[preprocessor.variables.variables]
-pgosm_flex_version = "0.10.0"
+#[preprocessor.variables.variables]
+#pgosm_flex_version = "0.10.0"

docs/src/SUMMARY.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     - [Layersets](./layersets.md)
     - [Indexes](./custom-indexes.md)
     - [Configure Postgres](./configure-postgres.md)
+    - [Data Files](./data-files.md)
 - [Query examples](./query.md)
 - [Routing](./routing.md)
 - [Processing Time](./performance.md)

docs/src/common-customization.md

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ exactly what `--region` and `--subregion` options to choose.
 This can be a bit confusing as larger subregions can contain smaller subregions.
 Feel free to [start a discussion](https://github.com/rustprooflabs/pgosm-flex/discussions/new/choose) if you need help figuring this part out!
 
+> See the [Data Files](data-files.md) section for steps to change this behavior.
+
 If you want to load the entire United States subregion, instead of
 the District of Columbia subregion, the `docker exec` command is changed to the
 following.
@@ -48,46 +50,6 @@ docker exec -it \
     --region=north-america
 ```
 
-## Specific input file
-
-The automatic Geofabrik download can be overridden by providing PgOSM Flex
-with the path to a valid `.osm.pbf` file using `--input-file`.
-This option overrides the default file handling, archiving, and MD5
-checksum validation.  With `--input-file` you can use a custom `osm.pbf`
-you created, or use it to simply remove the need for an internet connection
-from the instance running the processing.
-
-> Note: The `--region` option is always required, the `--subregion` option can be used with `--input-file` to put the information in the `subregion` column of `osm.pgosm_flex`.
-
-
-### Small area / custom extract
-
-Some of the smallest subregions provided by Geofabrik are quite large compared
-to the area of interest for a project.
-The `osmium` tool makes it quick and easy to
-[extract a bounding box](https://docs.osmcode.org/osmium/latest/osmium-extract.html).
-The following example extracts an area roughly around Denver, Colorado.
-It takes about 3 seconds to extract the 3.2 MB `denver.osm.pbf` output from
-the 239 MB input.
-
-```bash
-osmium extract --bbox=-105.0193,39.7663,-104.9687,39.7323 \
-    -o denver.osm.pbf \
-    colorado-2023-04-18.osm.pbf
-```
-
-The PgOSM Flex procesing time for the smaller Denver region takes less than 20 seconds on a
-typical laptop, versus 11 minutes for all of Colorado.
-
-```bash
-docker exec -it \
-    pgosm python3 docker/pgosm_flex.py \
-    --ram=8 \
-    --region=custom \
-    --subregion=denver \
-    --input-file=denver.osm.pbf \
-    --layerset=everything
-```
 
 ## Customize load to PostGIS
 

docs/src/customizations.md

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 - [Layersets](./layersets.md)
 - [Layers](./layers.md)
 - [Configure Postgres](./configure-postgres.md)
+- [Data Files](./data-files.md)

docs/src/data-files.md

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+# Data Files
+
+PgOSM Fle will automatically manage downloads of the appropriate data and `.md5`
+files from the [Geofabrik download server](https://download.geofabrik.de/).
+When using the default behavior, PgOSM Flex will automatically start downloading
+the two necessary files:
+
+* `<region/subregion>-latest.osm.pbf`
+* `<region/subregion>-latest.osm.pbf.md5`
+
+The data path on the host machine is defined via the `docker run` command. This
+documentation always uses `~/pgosm-data` per the [quick start](quick-start.md).
+
+```bash
+docker run --name pgosm -d --rm \
+    -v ~/pgosm-data:/app/output \
+    ...
+```
+
+> See the [Selecting Region and Sub-region](common-customization.md#selecting-region-and-subregion)
+> section for more about the default behavior.
+
+
+
+There are two methods to override this default behavior: specify `--pgosm-date`
+or use `--input-file`.
+If you have manually saved files in the path used by PgOSM Flex using `-latest`
+in the filename, they **will be overwritten** if you are not using one of the
+methods described below.
+
+
+## Specific date with `--pgosm-date`
+
+Use `--pgosm-date` to specify a specific date for the data.  The date specified
+must be in `yyyy-mm-dd` format.
+This mode requires you have a valid `.pbf` and matching `.md5` file in order to
+function. The following example shows the `docker exec` command along with
+a `--pgosm-date` defined.
+
+```bash
+docker exec -it \
+    pgosm python3 docker/pgosm_flex.py \
+    --ram=8 \
+    --region=north-america/us \
+    --subregion=district-of-columbia \
+    --pgosm-date=2024-05-14
+```
+
+The output from running should confirm it finds and uses the file with the
+specified date.
+Remember, the paths reported from Docker (`/app/output/`) report the
+container-internal path, not your local path on the host.
+
+```bash
+INFO:pgosm-flex:geofabrik:PBF File exists /app/output/district-of-columbia-2024-05-14.osm.pbf
+INFO:pgosm-flex:geofabrik:PBF & MD5 files exist.  Download not needed
+INFO:pgosm-flex:geofabrik:Copying Archived files
+INFO:pgosm-flex:pgosm_flex:Running osm2pgsql
+```
+
+If a date is specified without matching file(s) it will raise an error and exit.
+
+```bash
+ERROR:pgosm-flex:geofabrik:Missing PBF file for 2024-05-15. Cannot proceed.
+```
+
+
+## Specific input file with `--input-file`
+
+The automatic Geofabrik download can be overridden by providing PgOSM Flex
+with the path to a valid `.osm.pbf` file using `--input-file`.
+This option overrides the default file handling, archiving, and MD5
+checksum validation.  With `--input-file` you can use a custom `osm.pbf`
+you created, or use it to simply remove the need for an internet connection
+from the instance running the processing.
+
+> Note: The `--region` option is always required, the `--subregion` option can be used with `--input-file` to put the information in the `subregion` column of `osm.pgosm_flex`.
+
+
+### Small area / custom extract
+
+Some of the smallest subregions provided by Geofabrik are quite large compared
+to the area of interest for a project.
+The `osmium` tool makes it quick and easy to
+[extract a bounding box](https://docs.osmcode.org/osmium/latest/osmium-extract.html).
+The following example extracts an area roughly around Denver, Colorado.
+It takes about 3 seconds to extract the 3.2 MB `denver.osm.pbf` output from
+the 239 MB input.
+
+```bash
+osmium extract --bbox=-105.0193,39.7663,-104.9687,39.7323 \
+    -o denver.osm.pbf \
+    colorado-2023-04-18.osm.pbf
+```
+
+The PgOSM Flex processing time for the smaller Denver region takes less than 20 seconds on a
+typical laptop, versus 11 minutes for all of Colorado.
+
+```bash
+docker exec -it \
+    pgosm python3 docker/pgosm_flex.py \
+    --ram=8 \
+    --region=custom \
+    --subregion=denver \
+    --input-file=denver.osm.pbf \
+    --layerset=everything
+```