[josm-dev] Easy way to use planet file as substitute for osm server

[Stefan Aschenbach]

>
>> I'm cringing at the thought of trying loading a large extract into
>> JOSM and expecting it to be able to work quite happily. I would never
>> want to try and work with large areas in JOSM at any time in a  
>> desktop
>> or laptop with 4GB of RAM, never mind on a netbook.
>
> You are right. loading the whole region into JOSM will probably  
> toast my
> poor netbook.
> Maybe I can download the .osm file, split it with mkgmaps splitter  
> tool
> into managable chunks
> and load only whats needed.
>

I may as well ask the list:

Is there an easy way to set up a downloaded .osm file
as a substitute for the osm server for offline use?

So I can use the 'download map along track' or
'download region' function out of that file?

I found tutorials to set up an own osm server, but they mostly meant  
webservers with mapnik rendering.
(And they did it on linux, I would need a windows solution.)

So is there a way for josm to search the file or has someone a link  
to a tutorial on how to set up a server just for
delivering osm data through API calls?

Thanks a lot,

Stefan