[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 23, Issue 1

[Thomas Wood]

2009/1/1 Donald Campbell II <donaciano2000 at gmail.com>:
> Alright so worked on making my own routable map since it appears most of the
> premade ones are european.
>
> I couldn't get the XAPI downloads working at all, I think I saw somewhere
> that it's currently not working so you have to download planet.osm instead?#

Or download a country-sized extract of the planet.osm from somewhere
such as downloads.cloudmade.com
Osmosis is the tool for (among other things) extracting certain areas
(bounding boxes) from a planet.osm (or extract thereof).

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis

>
> So after not being able to get that working right I tried using JOSM for it.
> Is there any script or plugin for JOSM that can take a larger area and split
> it into smaller ones automatically and download it piecemeal?  Trying to get
> Vancouver Washington, Portland OR and Salem OR but it'll take me forever to
> get little chunks downloaded one by one.
>
> Also FYI to all the n00bs like me out there... you won't be able to get a
> large metro area of data into JOSM by double-clicking it's icon.  You'll
> have to manually set it's memory limit to at least 500MB or so, mine is
> using about 550MB right now and I still have a lot of gaps to fill.
>
> java -jar -Xmx500M josm-latest.jar
> Change the mem from 500 to what you need and the josm name to what you have.
>
> -DC
>>
>> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download
>>
>> The map you downloaded doesn't contain routing information.
>
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)