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

[Lester Caine]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's your decision entirely of course but I utterly fail to understand why you
> use 2-year-old data and batter all available APIs with tons of requests when you
> can easily get CURRENT data for ALL OF THE UK from downloads.cloudmade.com or
> download.geofabrik.de, both linked from the planet page that has been pointed
> out to you.

I think the problem here is that nick is listed as 'UK' area on the extract 
list, and people don't think to look at other options :)

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