[OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

[Paul Norman]

> From: Mick [mailto:bareman at tpg.com.au]
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM
> 
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:28 -0400
> Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Mick <bareman at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > > I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map
> > > covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to
> > > Bristol [ ... ]
> >
> > The Planet page points to a number of planet extracts.  Will one of
> > the UK-like extracts work for you?
> >
> Sadly, no, the area is split between southwest, south, swales & oxford
> extracts with 1 to 5 mile gaps between.
> 
> I have tried to fill the gaps using the export to xml feature of the
> online map but that requires a (for me at least) mind bending array of
> inconsistently sized bits.

Would the united_kingdom extract at
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/northern_europe/united_kingdom work?

If not, you could try the jxapi. It is more reliable than the old xapi,
although the osm.org hosted one is currently down for maintenance. Mapquest
runs one, the details are at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Java