[osmosis-dev] Extacting some areas

[Peter Schrammel]

Hi,

I'm new to this whole openstretmap/(Post)GIS/osmosis stuff so please 
forgive my naive questions ;-)

The question is simple: Can I extract the organisational areas out of a 
planet file with osmosis?

I just want to have country, state, ... city shapes (evtl. zip-code 
areas). I'm not interested in any othe information like POI, streets, 
lakes,..... Is this possible with osmosis? Has anybody done this? Do you 
have any numbers how big the file/DB will be?

THX
Peter