[OSM-newbies] "Low detail" datagrab?

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Phil Monger <philm94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> Thanks for the help.
> Is there anyway of applying this to the whole of Western Europe? The area I
> need is larger than 100 degrees squared!

Planet.  Unless Geofabrik have an extract for Western Europe.

Oh look!  They do.

http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe.osm.bz2