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

[Mick]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:41 -0700
Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> > 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
> 
I've downloaded all of UK from nick.dev.openstreetmap.org and
extracted the bit I want, its a bit old (28 Oct 2009) but mayhap I can
update it without massive downloads. I've got most of the area current
to last week.

Now for a couple of weeks 'normalizing' the tags and load it into
postgis.

Thanks to all who replied

mick