[OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

[John Smith]

2009/11/14 Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>:
> hi,
>
> I want to use osmosis to download and extract from the planet. I tried giving
> the web address of the planet latest file, but get an error saying
> 'http:/openstre../planet_latest.. not found'. Note that the error gives the
> address as http:/  with only one forward slash. The question is, do I need to
> have the whole planet file on my local machine in order to extract a part of
> it?

Or use the extracts geofabrik publishes.

http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/