I am sorry, the reply was included your name and not the Dev channel. My greatest appologizes for showing me up.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" To: "Fire Girl" Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Request for Windows support Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:33 +0200 Please always include the list in your replies. I don't know anything about windows and don't use it. I'd suggest trying the wiki, or perhaps someone else here knows? On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Fire Girl wrote: > this is excellent news, I didn't know it was possible to read the packed > file :) that is great. > > but, could you show me, or do you know of a reliable and good Windows parser > program that can do just that, .... read the packed file, then display a map > segement based on values i input? possibly create a graphical image file? :) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" > To: "Fire Girl" > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Request for Windows support > Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 12:44:14 +0200 > > > 2008/5/18 Fire Girl : >> Hi! :-) I have been having some degree of difficulty pulling data in from >> a >> planet file. I would like to get the data in a usable format that is open >> for interpretation. But I want to do this on a Windows XP machine. Can >> someone point me to a good tutorial file or explain which toolsets I >> should >> download to accomplish this feat? :-) Thank you so much, kindly, FireG. > > You need bzip2 to unpack the file, though apparently 7zip can read it > also. However, it is not recommended to unpack the files since they're > HUGE unpacked (>80GB). > > The question is what you want with the data once its unpacked. Most > programs in OSM can read the compressed files directly. It's is also > advisable to pick an extract of the world that covers the area you're > interested in. > > Have a nice day, > > > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout http://svana.org/kleptog/ > > -- > See Exclusive Video: 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards > -- Martijn van Oosterhout http://svana.org/kleptog/ -- See Exclusive Video: 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards http://www.hollywoodlife.net/younghollywoodawards2008/
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