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

[MarkS]

This is the way to go.

I download the UK from download.geofabrik.de once a week or so. Then use 
osmosis to divide the UK extract up into the smaller regions as required.

In my case I use poly files (derived from the UK region boundary 
relations) to tell osmosis which regions I want.

Mark S


On 20/10/2011 04:01, Toby Murray wrote:
> If you are needing that much data I would strongly recommend starting
> off with an extract of the whole country and then trim out what you
> need using osmosis. Extract providers can be found here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet#Country_and_area_extracts
>
> And osmosis docs on trimming an extract are here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Detailed_Usage#Area_Filtering_Tasks
>
> Toby
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:51 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
>> in the north east using commands like:
>> wget -t 0
>> http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/xapi?map[bbox=-6.41,49.85,-1.68,51.56]
>> -O souwest.osm
>>
>> but all I can get is an error - 'connection reset by peer' or 'timeout'
>>
>> I also tried:
>> wget -t 0
>> http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[bbox=-6,49.8,-1.0,51.6][natural=*]
>> -O souwest-relation-natural.osm
>>
>> but this required dozens of individual transaction to get results
>> osmosis refused to read.
>>
>> am I biting off more than the server can chew or using the wrong
>> procedure?
>>
>> could some kind soul point me in the right direction
>>
>> mick
>>
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