<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I detested the “Six Californias” when it was being proposed as a ballot measure. Perhaps that is flavoring my response, but at one time or another I’ve generated topo maps for areas that lie within four of those six divisions so it would be a bit of a hassle for me to have that.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If a split need be made I would prefer a single one which logically would be on a north-south basis, probably based on the number of OSM objects but following some county boundaries that can be listed in the description.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In any case, I assume a good description of the extract boundaries will be provided (unlike <a href="http://maps.me" class="">Maps.me</a> and now Osmand where the names of the sub-state areas are all that is provided and it is not clear to me the exact extent of coverage is for any given map download).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At present there is a us-west extract covering basically the Rocky Mountain states and west. Last I checked it was a bit over twice the size of California alone. Along that same line, would the current extract for California continue in addition to the sub-state extracts? If so, then I will withdraw my opinion on where the state extracts should be split as I can continue, at least for the while, with using the full state data.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your attention to this and for your organization making these extracts available!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers!</div><div class="">Tod</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 6, 2018, at 2:53 AM, Vivek Bansal <<a href="mailto:3vivekb@gmail.com" class="">3vivekb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Frederik,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes California is too big! We also like the attention!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Since the demise of metrozen extracts, I don't know of a good site outside of Geofabrik to get regulary updated OSM extracts of California. There is <a href="https://www.interline.io/osm/extracts/" class="">https://www.interline.io/osm/extracts/</a> but it is a similar business model to the Geofabrik Downloads.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. I would certainly love smaller more regularly updated extracts! I'm not sure how much my team would pay for it though. We would use them to power our Opentripplanner instance. We would want the whole San Francisco Bay Area in one extract.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. I think the most common analysis patterns rely on regions greater than each county, but smaller than just NorCal and SoCal. The 6 californias here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias</a> </div><div class="">is pretty close to what I would suggest (except i'd have the Bay Area 9 county region to be one group, perhaps the 7th California?). I don't know of any spatial files with this breakdown.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class="">Vivek</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:40 AM Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" class="">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">on the Geofabrik download server, we usually split up countries into<br class="">sub-regions once their single .osm.pbf has gone over a certain size. The<br class="">aim is to make it easy for people to work with data just for their<br class="">region, even on lower-spec hardware where it might be difficult to<br class="">handle huge files.<br class=""><br class="">Every once in a while I check the list of not-yet-split countries and<br class="">split up the largest of them. The current top of the list is<br class=""><br class="">1. Netherlands<br class="">2. California<br class="">3. Indonesia<br class="">4. Spain<br class="">5. Czech Republic<br class="">6. Brazil<br class="">7. Ontario<br class="">8. Norway<br class="">9. Austria<br class="">10. India<br class=""><br class="">Hence the next country I'll split up is the Netherlands, but after that,<br class="">for the first time ever, a second-level entity (California) will be<br class="">larger than all not-yet-split countries.<br class=""><br class="">So I wonder:<br class=""><br class="">1. is there already a site where someone interested in only a subset of<br class="">California can download current data and potentially also daily diffs?<br class=""><br class="">2. is there a demand for this?<br class=""><br class="">3. what would be a sensible way to split California - in 58 counties, or<br class="">maybe just go with SoCal and NorCal for now?<br class=""><br class="">Bye<br class="">Frederik<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank" class="">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-us mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" class="">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a></blockquote></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:40 AM Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" class="">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br class="">
<br class="">
on the Geofabrik download server, we usually split up countries into<br class="">
sub-regions once their single .osm.pbf has gone over a certain size. The<br class="">
aim is to make it easy for people to work with data just for their<br class="">
region, even on lower-spec hardware where it might be difficult to<br class="">
handle huge files.<br class="">
<br class="">
Every once in a while I check the list of not-yet-split countries and<br class="">
split up the largest of them. The current top of the list is<br class="">
<br class="">
1. Netherlands<br class="">
2. California<br class="">
3. Indonesia<br class="">
4. Spain<br class="">
5. Czech Republic<br class="">
6. Brazil<br class="">
7. Ontario<br class="">
8. Norway<br class="">
9. Austria<br class="">
10. India<br class="">
<br class="">
Hence the next country I'll split up is the Netherlands, but after that,<br class="">
for the first time ever, a second-level entity (California) will be<br class="">
larger than all not-yet-split countries.<br class="">
<br class="">
So I wonder:<br class="">
<br class="">
1. is there already a site where someone interested in only a subset of<br class="">
California can download current data and potentially also daily diffs?<br class="">
<br class="">
2. is there a demand for this?<br class="">
<br class="">
3. what would be a sensible way to split California - in 58 counties, or<br class="">
maybe just go with SoCal and NorCal for now?<br class="">
<br class="">
Bye<br class="">
Frederik<br class="">
<br class="">
-- <br class="">
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