[OSM-talk] UK OSM Map

[Nick Black]

Hold on a sec and I'll post my own copy of OSM UK.

On 2/22/07, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
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> Nick Black wrote:
> > There's no reason why it shouldnt let you download the data.  Could
> > you be more specific?  What data were you trying to get at - GPX or
> > OSM?  Did JOSM give you error messages?  If you were trying to
> > download the entire UK in one shot, its possible that the server timed
> > out.
>
> Code was recently added that prevents people downloading too much in one
> go because the server couldn't cope with the load that created.
>
> > If you are operating on in Unix, try using a tool like curl to
> > download directly from the API like:
> >
> > curl -u <username>:<password>
> > http://opesntreetmap.org/api/0.3/map?bbox=minX,minY,maxX,maxY
> >
> > and split up the requests into a series of smaller request to reduce
> > the hit on the db.
>
> It would have to be a lot of smaller requests.
>
> > Or, download planet.osm, and extract the UK from that - which would
> > prob be easier.
>
> That is definitely the right approach. I think there may be a script
> somewhere in http://svn.openstreetmap.org/utils that does it for you,
> but I don't know where.
>
> Robert (Jamie) Munro
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