<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Patrik Sjöberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrik.sjoberg@bth.se">patrik.sjoberg@bth.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi!<br>
<br>
What would be the best way to get data for ways at a specific zoom<br>
level? I would like all roads visible on zoom 5 for instance, possibly<br>
with lower resolution (fewer nodes per way). I'm guessing something<br>
like <a href="http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way%5Bhighway=*%5D" target="_blank">http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[highway=*]</a> but the<br>
API's only seem suitable for quite small boxes.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>The extended API might be what you are looking for: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI</a><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
We're also trying to import the planet file to our own copy of the<br>
database with osmosis. We have some quite new 8-core Mac Pro's here<br>
for development but osmosis 0.30 is compiled with java version that<br>
does not seem to be available on osx yet so we are trying on some old<br>
server instead. Would osmosis benefit enough from multicores that it<br>
would be strongly recommended to dedicate a Mac Pro (by booting in<br>
windows) for the parsing? Do you have any feeling of how long the<br>
import will take? We experimented with some simple ruby and sqlite and<br>
calculated the time required to like 3 months ^^<br>
<br>
<br>
Patrik Sjöberg<br>
<br>
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