[Openstreetmap] Downloading OSM data

[Andy Robinson]

It was working for me with either 0.1 or 0.2 this last week. For an example
try the following box for track points:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.2/trackpoints?bbox=52.15,-2.5,52.82,-1&pa
ge=n 

where n is the page number starting with zero. Each page returns 5000
points. The newest points are provided in the first pages and the oldest on
the later pages. No way to know how many pages at present. And yes, from
what I can tell they are in time order albeit that no time stamp is provided
with the data returned.

Similar for nodes and line segments but with "map" rather than "trackpoints"
and no page requirement.

This boundary box covers the west midlands, which is steadily building a
good coverage of GPS and map data.

Andy Robinson

-----Original Message-----
From: openstreetmap-bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk
[mailto:openstreetmap-bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of simon green
Sent: 06 November 2005 13:09
To: openstreetmap at vr.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: [Openstreetmap] Downloading OSM data

Hi there. I'm interested in playing around with some visualizations of the
OSM data, in particular using programmable graphics hardware to do database
queries, different projections, colouring schemes etc. 

How do I go about getting the data? I found the Wiki page about the REST api
and created an account, but I get "file not found" when I try to access urls
like the one below:
http://emailaddress:password@www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.1/map?bbox=51.47,-0
.26,51.58,-0.03
<http://emailaddress:password@www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.1/> 

Is the data used in the printed London maps in the database? Is the track
data in time order?

Cheers,

Simon.