[Talk-ca] new planet.osm

[Dan Putler]

Hi John,

Cloudmade creates extracts of some of OSM and distributes it in several
different formats. Here is the link:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/canada#downloads_breadcrumbs

Dan

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:26 -0700, john whelan wrote:
> Currently I'm chatting to a group of opendata people.  Terribly
> enthusiastic people but they don't seem to be looking at the entire
> picture.  One downloads a file called new planet.osm from
> http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ and  complains because its "8 gigs of
> compressed data (uncompressed they're over 120GB). Then it takes a
> couple of hours to uncompress and process the file."  Since he is only
> interested in Ottawa I suspect there should be a way to just download
> Ottawa rather than the entire planet which is what I think he is doing
> at the moment.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks John
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Dan Putler
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia