[OSM-talk] OSMXapi

[Thomas Wood]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Daniel Taylor
<daniel.taylor at danielt.com> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >> That might be the cause of your issues, and if so there doesn't seem to
>  >> be a way around it.
>  >
>  > If you need a properly "cut" bounding box then you can run your .osm
>  > file from OsmXAPI through an Osmosis -bb task afterwards. This will
>  > drop all nodes outside the box, and cut ways extending past the box.
>  >
>  > Bye
>  > Frederik
>  >
>  Frederik,
>
>  Well that was another thing that puzzled me, because I tried that and it
>  didn't (seem to) work. (Although it's entirely possible that it's my fault).
>
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmosis#--bounding-box_.28--bb.29
>
>  Says that the completeWays and completeRelations are off ('no') by
>  default (I tried enabling them just to see if the logic was reversed
>  (ie. a bug) and explicitly turning them off, but on luck).
>
>  Here's what I was using:
>
>  java -jar osmosis-0.24/osmosis.jar --read-xml file=data.osm -bb
>  left=-2.6951453125 right=53.53062734375 top=2.6072546875
>  bottom=53.57457265625 completeRelations=no completeWays=no --write-xml
>  file=data.osm
>
>  I could be doing that wrong, I even tried cutting it into a tiny bbox
>  using coordinates that where only a few seconds apart, but still
>  couldn't make it work.
>
>  It does make some difference however (new file here shown against a backup):
>  -rw-r--r--  1 daniel daniel    1046290 2008-03-20 23:03 data.osm
>  -rw-r--r--  1 daniel daniel    1190058 2008-03-20 13:49 data.osm.1
>
>  No visible changes though, hmm weird, that one must be my fault, I'll
>  keep playing.
>
>  Thanks for your help,
>
>  - Daniel
>
>
>
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The flag should actually be --bb (double dashes, even on shortened versions)

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)