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

[Peter Körner]

>> wget http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 -O - |
>> bzcat
>>    osmosis --read-xml "/dev/stdin" --bounding-box top=49.5138
>>    left=10.9351 bottom=49.3866 right=11.201 --write-xml "extract.xml"
> 
> Isn't this bbox only a few times larger then what the API will download
> in a single call?

The bbox is just a sample from the osmisis wiki page. I just wanted to 
outline the process of working with the streaming download.
  You can add any command to the pipe, e.g. a sax-parser in php:


wget http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 -O - -q | \
   bzcat | php parser.php > data.csv

where parser.php creates a sax-parser reading from STDIN.

Peter