[OSM-dev] Extracting any size data from planet dump

[Simone Cortesi]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Yatzek <bezkres at op.pl> wrote:

> I want to extract data from a planet-latest.osm file which will contain
> any selected rectangular area. Is there any script available which will
> do the job?

Osmosis is your friend: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmosis

the --bounding-box option does exactly this...

-S