[OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

[Matthias Julius]

Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com> schrieb:

>Altogether, I think those daily country extracts are one of the most
>useful
>"tools" for working with OSM data, so I'd like to send a great thanks
>to
>Geofabrik for providing the resource to offer this valuable service.

I agree.

But, I need to point out again that theese extracts are not quite as useful as they could be, IMHO. Unless something has been changed, ways that cross the bounding polygon are trunkated at the last node inside the polygon. When two neighboring extracts are merged there will be a gap at the border (or worse). This makes the extracts unusable if one needs a little bit more than one.  Merging of two extracts is much easier and resource friendlier than downloading the bigger extract and extracting the data from that.

I know it has been stated before that the Geofabrik extracts are as they are to maintain backwards compatibility.  One could provide a little tool or osmosis filter (if that doesn't exist, yet) that trunkates incomplete ways for tools that cannot cope with those on their own.

Matthias