Simone Cortesi wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Igor Brejc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The problem is fetching the data - the only viable option I see is using >> OSMXAPI, but its server is overwhelmed and will limit the download size >> in the future (from what I read on this list). Using planet dumps seems >> to me a bit too unfriendly from the end-user perspective - they would >> have to download quite a large quantity of data. >> > > still you can download data from some planet's country extract (italy > is 22mb at the moment). > find them on Geofabrik, cloudmade, etc... > > -S > > Yes, that's an option - but still there are problems with this approach: - you don't know in advance the area covered by these extracts (some of them) - some countries are not covered (mine, for example) by some extracts - your software depends on the good will of people maintaining these extracts - people move on or they loose interest - some extracts are maintained on a regular basis, some are not
Basically what I'm trying to say is that this is not a systematic approach. It would be more useful if these extracts were not country-based but tile-based instead (maybe this already exists, forgive my ignorance?) Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk