[OSM-talk] planet.osm / Tile Downloader

[Joerg Ostertag]

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> That's a pretty cool idea, and one I was actually talking about last
> night. How do you get the 5degree by 5 degree sections? Maybe I've
> simply been unlucky, insofar as I've not been able to actually get areas
> this large via the API -- even downloading a very smal lsection of inner
> london has taken me a really long time in some cases. (Long enough that
> Firefox times out -- but this may be a configurable HTTP client
> setting?)

loop over lat [-90,90] step 5
  loop over lon [-180..180] step 5
    max_retries=9; 
    while max_retries-- && error(local_file)
	curl url(lat,lon) -> localfile

see GPSDrive Package: 
   Commandline:
      geoinfo.pl --osm=download:europe

   Source is at:
      http://www.ostertag.name/gpsdrive/tar/gpsdrive-2.10pre3-work.tar.gz
      (Currently building/uploading the newest takes about 20 minutes)

   File:
     scripts/Geo/Gpsdrive/OSM.pm


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Joerg