Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-16 Thread Peter Körner
wget http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 -O - | bzcat osmosis --read-xml /dev/stdin --bounding-box top=49.5138 left=10.9351 bottom=49.3866 right=11.201 --write-xml extract.xml Isn't this bbox only a few times larger then what the API will download in a single call?

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Körner
good idea - but can you confirm that it is impossible to extract it from the remote file? you could do it with good ol' shell pipes: wget http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 -O - | bzcat osmosis --read-xml /dev/stdin --bounding-box top=49.5138 left=10.9351

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I lost track of who wrote what in this thread, but: Although geofabrik says the extracts are done every night, the extract I got yesterday was atleast 2 weeks out of date for my area. We generate all extracts every day, with the sole exception of the North America extract which is

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:04 +0100, Peter Körner wrote: good idea - but can you confirm that it is impossible to extract it from the remote file? you could do it with good ol' shell pipes: wget http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 -O - | bzcat osmosis --read-xml

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 16 Nov 2009 3:27:05 am Jon Burgess wrote: Isn't this bbox only a few times larger then what the API will download in a single call? IMO you'd be crazy to download nearly 8GB of data just to get hold of what probably amounts to a few 10's of MB. At the very least you should start

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 16 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Monday 16 Nov 2009 3:27:05 am Jon Burgess wrote: Isn't this bbox only a few times larger then what the API will download in a single call? IMO you'd be crazy to download nearly 8GB of data just to get hold of what probably amounts to a

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 16 Nov 2009 4:08:45 am Frederik Ramm wrote: I lost track of who wrote what in this thread, but: Although geofabrik says the extracts are done every night, the extract I got yesterday was atleast 2 weeks out of date for my area. We generate all extracts every day, with the sole

[OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I want to use osmosis to download and extract from the planet. I tried giving the web address of the planet latest file, but get an error saying 'http:/openstre../planet_latest.. not found'. Note that the error gives the address as http:/ with only one forward slash. The question is, do I

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-13 Thread John Smith
2009/11/14 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org: hi, I want to use osmosis to download and extract from the planet. I tried giving the web address of the planet latest file, but get an error saying 'http:/openstre../planet_latest.. not found'. Note that the error gives the address as http:/  

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 14 Nov 2009 10:17:06 am you wrote: Or use the extracts geofabrik publishes. http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ I usually use either geofabrik or cloudmade. Cloudmade is supposed to update once a week, but it is saturday and the latest extract is dated thursday the 4th.