> I was considering downloading the “planet.osm” > that contains the OSM XML for the entire earth and then extracting a > subset of information from that. I think you'd be better using the /api/0.6/map api-call: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6
> and then I would feed > the extracted output into Mapnik or Osmarender? Would this be feasible > to extract data in this fashion or would it simply be way too slow to > consider doing. Is there any other reasonable way to do something like > I need to do without requiring a database? To render with the default osm-style you need an postgis database imported from a osm xml file, as the stylesheet contains SQL queries. But there is a relative young mapnik plugin [1] that directly reads in osm-xml files. Peter [1] http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/plugins/input/osm _______________________________________________ osmosis-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmosis-dev
