[Imports] ourFootPrints.de data import has started

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:01, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:48, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As long as that person uses a dedicated account, and takes full
>> responsibility, its cool.
>
> It'll be uploaded under the "ourFootPrints import" account.
>
>> 1: add the 'source=ourFootPrints.de' tag to it all
>
> I'll be adding lots of source metadata both on the changeset and on
> the objects themselves.
>
>> 2: slice up the OSM file to bite sized geographical pieces ie. Small
>> enough that JOSM can happely view that whole area in 1 download.
>> -this can easily be done manually, as your file isnt that big. And
>> have a mapping party (social get together) and load it all at once.
>
> Yes perhaps I shouldn't upload it all at once.
>
> What osmosis options should I use to slice up a file into say
> ~100x100km squares while making sure it doesn't do some silly cutting
> of ways/nodes that go over those boundaries that'll ruin something?

FWIW I tried just feeding the 16MB .osm file (it got a bit smaller) to
bulk_upload.py. It reached the 50k node limit on the changeset and
then died:

    http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2766

Time to check out some of the splitting tools...