[OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

[Craig Wallace]

On 25/02/2012 04:19, mick wrote:
> I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, historic, waterway, ...) from predefined subsets of the planet file.
>
> In doing this I hope to minimise:
> 1 my impact on OSM's resources
> 2 amount of data I have to download (I'm in Australia so I'm burdened with 20GB monthly traffic limits).
>
> My current thinking is that I need to:
>
> 1. download the weekly England, Scotland&  Wales excerpts from geofabrik
> 2. merge the 3 files

Why not use the "Great Britain" extract from Geofabrik. It includes all 
of England, Scotland and Wales, so you won't need to download them 
separately then merge them.


Craig