[Openstreetmap] Downloading VMAP level 0 data for Germany

[frank]

Jeremy Stocks wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I would like to download this dataset for Germany.
>
>I have managed to organise a Bittorrent client for the download but the download is over 200mB. This is rather large for rmy home PC and may cause me exceed my monthly DSL 1 Gb per month free data limit.
>
>Tell me, is it anywhere possible to download this data purely by country? I am specifically interested in Germany, ideally Bavaria.
>
>Thax in advance,
>
>Jeremy Stocks.
>  
>
the older version (DCW from 1991/92) is available by country/by
selectable layers from  http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

another question in this context ..
is there any (free) tool to select datasets by vector mask (like the
germany area in the polbnda_bnd_area dataset in vmap0).

frank