[OSM-dev] planet.osm

[Nicola Ranaldo]

> Do you mean .pl?

Yes :)

> It stores every node in memory so for a whole planet that 
> might be a problem.
> However I have created a hacked version of planetosm-to-db.pl which allows
> you to extract data within a given bounding box. It still needs to keep
> nodes and segments within the bounding box in memory (the only way to tell
> whether to accept a segment is to test whether the 2 nodes are in the
> bounding box) but if the bounding box is, say 5 by 10 degrees it should be
> OK (I'm just running it on the UK now).
>
> I'll commit this to subversion later today.

You may add a switch to the command line to get the nodes from db to filter 
segments, this should help peoples with low memory in testing planet.osm.

	Niko