Hi John, Cloudmade creates extracts of some of OSM and distributes it in several different formats. Here is the link: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/canada#downloads_breadcrumbs
Dan On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:26 -0700, john whelan wrote: > Currently I'm chatting to a group of opendata people. Terribly > enthusiastic people but they don't seem to be looking at the entire > picture. One downloads a file called new planet.osm from > http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ and complains because its "8 gigs of > compressed data (uncompressed they're over 120GB). Then it takes a > couple of hours to uncompress and process the file." Since he is only > interested in Ottawa I suspect there should be a way to just download > Ottawa rather than the entire planet which is what I think he is doing > at the moment. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks John -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

