[OSM-talk] Updated Geofabrik Download Server

Alex Barth alex at mapbox.com
Mon Mar 11 18:15:29 UTC 2013


Frederik -

This is an awesome service. Should this or a similar shapefile export live
one day on openstreetmap.org/export ?


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <
jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:

> Thanks in general for these updates and
>
> "MD5 sums are now supported, as are regional daily diffs"
>
> BIG THANKS!
> -Jaakko
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:11:58
> To: Talk Openstreetmap<talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Updated Geofabrik Download Server
>
> Hi,
>
>     I've made some updates to the download server at
> download.geofabrik.de. You'll now get a map preview of the are you're
> downloading, and if you have a very slow internet connection you will
> value the fact that you can now expliticly download something like
> europe-130310.osm.pbf instead of always using "-latest" - that way you
> can be sure the file won't be removed from under your feet while you're
> downloading it.
>
> MD5 sums are now supported, as are regional daily diffs - it should now
> be very easy to keep an updated extract for your region of interest
> using just Osmosis and minimal daily downloads.
>
> The URLs have changed slightly but redirects are in place so that old
> links should still work:
>
> * leading /openstreetmap/ has gone
> * "-latest" introduced before file extension
> * underscores replaced by hyphens
>
> i.e. instead of
>
> /openstreetmap/europe/great_britain.osm.pbf
>
> it is now
>
> /europe/great-britain-latest.osm.pbf
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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