[OSM-newbies] "Low detail" datagrab?

[Phil Monger]

Hi There,

I'm looking to assemble a map of Western Europe (from the UK to around
Italy) , with some specific rendering. It's to be printed up for a school
wall.

I'm new to rendering, so not sure how it all works. As far as I know, the
only way I would be able to achieve this is to download the Europe extract
of planet.osm , then render it up from there.

Is there a simple way of just extracting certain tags? The idea would be,
mostly, to keep the amount of data down!

To start with I would just need the coastline, country borders and cities.

I've had a look through the Wiki's , but can't find any instructions on
this. If I just missed it, please feel free to post a link, with a RTFM
attached ;-)

Thanks,

Phil
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