On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Patrik Sjöberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi! > > What would be the best way to get data for ways at a specific zoom > level? I would like all roads visible on zoom 5 for instance, possibly > with lower resolution (fewer nodes per way). I'm guessing something > like > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[highway=*]<http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way%5Bhighway=*%5D>but > the > API's only seem suitable for quite small boxes. > The extended API might be what you are looking for: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI > > We're also trying to import the planet file to our own copy of the > database with osmosis. We have some quite new 8-core Mac Pro's here > for development but osmosis 0.30 is compiled with java version that > does not seem to be available on osx yet so we are trying on some old > server instead. Would osmosis benefit enough from multicores that it > would be strongly recommended to dedicate a Mac Pro (by booting in > windows) for the parsing? Do you have any feeling of how long the > import will take? We experimented with some simple ruby and sqlite and > calculated the time required to like 3 months ^^ > > > Patrik Sjöberg > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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