[OSM-dev] Map of Seattle

[Brandon Martin-Anderson]

washington.osm.highway.bz2 contains _only_ streets. washington.osm.bz2
contains streets, in addition to lake boundaries and streams and
building outlines and everything else.

-B

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tareq Ismail <hellotheretareq at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry but I didn't quite follow.
> How is washington.osm.highway.bz2 different than just washington.osm.bz2?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Brandon Martin-Anderson <badhill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> the formation is AREA.osm.CONTENT.bz - you want washington.osm.highway.bz2
>>
>> -B
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Tareq Ismail <hellotheretareq at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry, I'll post to the user list next time.
>> > One last question, on the cloudemade links you both provided, what do
>> > the
>> > different formats mean?
>> >
>> > washington.osm.administrative.bz2  (2.6M)
>> > washington.osm.bz2  (81.3M)
>> > washington.osm.coastline.bz2  (4.2M)
>> > washington.osm.highway.bz2
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Tareq Ismail
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> [This probably belongs on a user list, not dev.]
>> >>
>> >>  I'm trying to get an OSM xml file for Seattle however whenever I try
>> >>  requesting it from OpenStreetMap.org's "Export" tab it says that the
>> >> request
>> >>  is too big. I don't want to use planet.osm because that's far too
>> >> large
>> >> for
>> >>  the application I need. Any suggestions?
>> >>
>> >>  The corner coordinates I'm looking are between:
>> >>  47.979, -122.686
>> >>  47.346, -121.522
>> >>
>> >> Cloudmade has extracts by state, which are pretty manageable:
>> >>
>> >>  http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/united_states/washington
>> >>
>> >> you can then use osmsosis to shrink it if it isn't small enough.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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