[OSM-talk] download osm format large area, high zoom level

[Wim de Vries]

> I've just done some optimisation work on xapi which improves its capacity
> to
> download large bboxes.
>
> In a test I was successfully able to download the whole of the Netherlands
> (some 630Mb) in a couple of hours.
>
> You should be able to get at least a z10 sized tile from xapi for even the
> most densely mapped parts of the planet.
>
> Instructions here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi
Thanks a lot. I'll first try small areas.
Regards,
Wim de Vries

> 80n
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > Now I can only download very small patches via the Web interface. And,
>> at
>> > this moment I even cannot get any OSM (FireFox,IEExplorer or Kosmos)
>> from
>> > the site. Export just opens an empty page.
>>
>> You can do some filtering with OsmXAPI, which allows you to download
>> large sizes and also filtered by (one) tag, e.g. you could say "only
>> highway=*" or so.
>>
>> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
>>
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