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15. Oct 2018 23:56 by <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">frederik@remote.org</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">The reason<br />many people download country extracts from download.geofabrik.de is<br />probably not that the planet file isn't indexed and therefor extracting<br />a region is hard - it's that the planet file is huge and they don't want<br />to download that much. An indexed planet file would not help these users.<br /></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>As user of extracts I can confirm this that size is main reason for using extracts. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And download is not the only limitation.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I use small area (that can fit into RAM of my computer) then extracts are <br /></p><p>preferable over downloading file that will force my computer to swap during</p><p>any, even simplest, processing.<br /></p><p><br /></p> </body>
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