Great, thanks for doing this, this will be a great help to myself and others! Virginia would of course be on the top of my list...
Thanks again! -Josh On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've started making daily pbf extracts available for US states here: > > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/ > > I don't have all the states yet, I'm adding them at a rate of one or two per > day (email me offlist if you're burning to have YOUR state added). > > As with all other Geofabrik extracts, these are true polygon extracts, which > means that I'm cutting right through cities that straddle a state border. > > As a technical detail, these extracts are cut out from the census areas that > can be downloaded too. The census areas themselves are cut out with the > "clipIncompleteEntities" option, i.e. ways that cross a census area boundary > are simply cut; whereas the individual states are cut out with > "completeWays", i.e. it should be possible to combine several states without > data loss *if* they are within the same census area. > > (I don't even know if census areas are somthing that you guys are used to > work with - I had been looking for some sort of not-completely-arbitrary > subdivision of the US and this was one of the first things I found on > Wikipedia...) > > In the long run, Ian Dees is planning to set up extracts on an OSMF-US > server and I'll probably just pass my scripts over to him when the time > comes. So you can view this as a sort of public beta for the coming OSMF-US > service. > > Bye > Frederik > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
