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

[Nick Whitelegg]

>> Mick,
>> 
>> On 10/20/11 08:22, Mick 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 hadn't thought of UK as being Northern Europe, I looked in Western
>Europe.


I would tend to agree there. I would only think of the UK as being Northern Europe as opposed to Southern Europe: we're clearly nearer the western edge of Europe (Ireland and Portugal) than the northern edge (extreme northern Norway and Finland). I always think of Northern Europe as being Scandinavia and the Baltic States.

Nick