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

[Brett Henderson]

Yatzek wrote:
> Thanks. OSMosis is very useful. I just do not understand why it does 
> not accept :
>
> /osmosis --read-xml file="inFile.osm" --bounding-polygon 
> file="country2pts.txt" --write-xml file="outFile.osm"/
>
> while it accepts command:
>
> /osmosis --read-xml inFile.osm --bounding-polygon 
> file="countrty2pts.txt" --write-xml outFile.osm
Are you getting an error from the first command line?  If so can you 
provide the error you're receiving?
> /
> It also does not download or even read points files from maproom.psu.edu.
> I use firefox-3.0 and ubuntu 8.04
Do you mean that it won't automatically download files for you?  Or do 
you mean that it fails when you use a file obtained from that site?