Hi, Walschlager, Gerard wrote: > My question concerns how to do this. One option would be to use Osmosis > to generate a local database containing the XML from “planet.osm” such > that it could be queried in a variety of ways quickly. However, for my > simplistic use case of simply extracting a bounding box worth of XML, > would Osmosis perform this operation quick enough such that a user of my > application could specify the bounding box, Osmosis would extract that > bounding box directly from the “planet.osm” file
No. That requires parsing the whole file and I have yet to encounter a machine that can do this under 1 hour. I can think of two ways how you could handle your problem. 1. Import full planet into a PostGIS database using Osmosis' "Simple Schema". Then use the -dbb task to extract data from that. I have not used that but the data extraction should run quickly. The process the extracted data with a renderer of your choice to yield an image. 2. Import full planet into a PostGIS database using osm2pgsql. Then use Mapnik directly to render an image for the area of interest. If all you need is a PNG map image or so, the second option is recommended. The first path is less traveled. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ osmosis-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmosis-dev
