[OSM-talk] Exceeded API bandwidth limit, now what?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Michal Migurski wrote:
> I'm downloading London, in small sections. I just exceeded my API bandwidth limit.

Get

http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/great_britain/england.osm.bz2

then do

bzcat england.osm.bz2 | time osmosis --rx - --bb left=-.6 bottom=51.3 
right=.4 top=51.7 --wx london.osm

(or whatever "London" is for you).

The whole process takes less than 10 minutes - probably faster than 
piecemeal downloading from the API, and with no ill effects on the database.

The best thing, you can even do this if you're banned from the API ;)

Bye
Frederik