Adding new geographic regions to self hosted Overpass API

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Hi all,

I wanted to self-host a private Overpass API instance. I don’t need whole planet data (or attic or meta data).

For now just Europe is good. Later on, I would like to add “North America”. I am using the nginx docker container from wiktron/Overpass-API

Question:

  • once the data is populated with init mode, is it possible to add new regions later on? If so how?

cheers
Nilay

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Follow up

could I execute something on the container like:
osmium cat -o - -f xml some_new_region.pbf | update_database --db-dir=/db/

Would it add the new region without impacting the current region?
Also can I still run queries on existing region while the database is being updated?