On 4 Dec 2008, at 23:18, Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi, > > Andras and I were looking at cutting the OSM planet file into 1x1 > degree > tiles (including at least enough nodes outside the tile to correctly > "chop" a way at the tile boundary). > > I think I have an algorithm that can do this in four passes over the > planet file on a 32-bit machine, using perhaps 2-3 GB of RAM. > > Before I go forward...am I reinventing the wheel? I know that osmosis > can do this kind of thing, but my understanding is that it extracts a > finite number of "streams" from the data...we actually want to take > all > of the data and split it into 64800 parts. > > If no one has something like this and I can get it working, I'll post > the code somewhere. :-) >
What is the end use case of splitting the data this way? Are the current country (or in the case of the US, state) extracts not suitable? Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
