Hi, You could use osmosis to create a smaller .osm (providing a bounding box). This is multiplatform. For the remaining part, it depends on your application. Below a link explaining why OSM shapefiles are not of very good quality:
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_data#Let_QGIS_access_OSM_data_for_rendering In QGIS, you'll get much better result if you can run osm2postgresql, which is optimized for QGIS: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2postgresql The above requires Linux (for the first part of the script only). However, if you understand that the following is bash: if my_condition; then my_command fi and that "INSERT INTO" is a SQL command, then you can use osmosis yourself and run the second part of osm2postgresql with any sql client. Mayeul Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 à 00:43 -0700, Jeremy Stocks a écrit : > Hi there, > > > This is my first post here. I had a cursory glance at the archives but > didn't find much of help in this respect. > > > > I've downloaded a subset of an Openstreetmap planet file - even down > to German "Regierungsbezirk" level of Oberbayern where I live, yet I > want to narrow it down to an even smaller segment. My data were > downloaded from Geofabrik as Shapefile as the BZ2 OSM original dataset > didn't import into Post GIS. > > > Any pointers? I am on Windows XP. > > > Jeremy Stocks > > > Yes, shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is Roger the > Shrubber. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies. at > http://iamrogertheshrubber.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
