[HOT] Error with HOT exports

[Claire Halleux]

Thanks Stéphane for the video.

You won ;-) You managed to persuade me that it's really needed to organize
a new short training session for people in the surroundings. So they can
become more comortable using Qgis and OSM plugin. I'll do this soon.

Cheers

Claire



2013/4/9 Stéphane Henriod <s at henriod.info>

> Hi Claire
>
> One option would be to download the osm file directly from the
> openstreetmap.org page (so that it fits your area of interest and not the
> full country) and then convert it with QGIS, as explained here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd58Fxmov2k
>
> Cheers
>
> Stéphane
>
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Claire Halleux <Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Joseph,
>>
>> Thanks for the link, I wasn't used to that one.
>> But actually, yes, we do have issues with downloading big files from here.
>>
>> I could share explanations here for people who wouldn't know yet how to
>> convert data in other formats through QGis, but the biggest problem is
>> currently the size of the files to be downloaded.
>>
>> Thank you for your help anyway,
>>
>> Claire
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/9 Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi Claire,
>>>
>>> I imagine the HOT-export server has a full disk again, this has been
>>> causing problems for a while now; Harry has been clearing space, but it's
>>> just filling up again.
>>>
>>>  As for other sources of DRC data, there is regular dumps provided
>>> elsewhere by Geofabrik:
>>>
>>> http://download.geofabrik.de/africa/congo-democratic-republic.html
>>>
>>> There are no shape files available, but you could presumably import the
>>> data into QGIS and export the files you wanted from there. It's not an
>>> ideal situation, not least because you were originally dealing with a
>>> relatively small area and the proposed work-around involves downloading the
>>> entire country, but it might get you out of a bind.
>>>
>>> Best, Joseph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9 April 2013 14:12, Claire Halleux <halleuxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Today, I got error in osm2pgsql each time an export is launched on the
>>>> HOT export tool.
>>>> See http://hot-export.geofabrik.de/jobs/2686 or 2689th task (smaller
>>>> one).
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, it's been weeks for me that I cannot access anymore the
>>>> OSM2GIS website neither.
>>>>
>>>> Do you know if any of these tools will be ok soon?
>>>> Would you know any other user-friendly tool for exporting shp from OSM
>>>> database?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Claire
>>>>
>>>>
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