On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Pierre-Alain Dorange <[email protected]> wrote:

>> He is talking about France only. So if he used a country extract [1] in stead
>> of the whole planet, then his processing times would be much shorter for both
>> the methods mentioned bij Toby and Nakor.
>>
>> [1] <http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/>
>
> Yes, but they are huge...
> My original place=* for france is 50 MB (not compressed).

50 meg doesn't seem so big.

> France extract if 2 GB compressed, i don't think my python script was
> able to handle such a huge data.

What kind of processing were you doing? I'm assuming some kind of XML
(unless you were using the protobuffs). If thats the case, you can use
a simple SAX parser. If you need an example, I'll send you one.

- Serge

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