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

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Saturday 14 Nov 2009 10:17:06 am you wrote:
> >> Or use the extracts geofabrik publishes.
> >>
> >> http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
> >
> > I usually use either geofabrik or cloudmade. Cloudmade is supposed to
> > update once a week, but it is saturday and the latest extract is dated
> > thursday the 4th. Although geofabrik says the extracts are done every
> > night, the extract I got yesterday was atleast 2 weeks out of date for my
> > area. I am keen on seeing some changes I made a few days back.
> > Downloading the planet takes 20 minutes, and it is nearly an hour since
> > bunzip2 started running and only half the file has been unzipped.
> 
> You can bzcat the file and then pipe it to osmosis rather than trying
> to uncompress it first.
> 

good idea - but can you confirm that it is impossible to extract it from the 
remote file?
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
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