[OSM-dev] Indexing of PBF files

[Mateusz Konieczny]

15. Oct 2018 23:56 by frederik at remote.org <mailto:frederik at remote.org>:


> The reason
> many people download country extracts from download.geofabrik.de is
> probably not that the planet file isn't indexed and therefor extracting
> a region is hard - it's that the planet file is huge and they don't want
> to download that much. An indexed planet file would not help these users.
>




As user of extracts I can confirm this that size is main reason for using extracts. 





And download is not the only limitation.




When I use small area (that can fit into RAM of my computer) then extracts are 


preferable over downloading file that will force my computer to swap during

any, even simplest, processing.




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