Fantastic news! Thanks for the update, Frederik. -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, at 04:06, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Dear US OSMers, > > for historical reasons, the layout of data for the USA on the Geofabrik > download server has always been a bit peculiar: There wasn't a file for > "all of the US" - there was a file for North America (including Canada > and Mexico), and then there were files for the "Census Regions" (US > Midwest, US Norhteast and so on, and for individual states. > > (The concrete historical reason is that there used to be a time when due > to TIGER imports the US extract would have been about 95% of the North > America file anyway, and not much would be gained by clipping Canada. > And Mexico was initially not even part of North America on the download > server, due to my own lack of geographic competence.) > > I'm in the process of straightening that out, so that there will be the > standard structure (one file for North America, below that a file for > USA and its neighbours, and below that the different states) in the future. > > In detail, this will mean the following changes: > > (a) for download links (pbf, bz2, diff directories etc) > > * North America remains unchanged. > * US states (and Norcal/Socal) remain unchanged. > * new http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us-latest.osm.pbf and > ancillary files > * the five census regions (Midwest, Northeast, Pacific, South, West) > will be demoted by one directory from currently > /north-america/us-midwest-latest.osm.pbf to > /north-america/us/us-midwest-latest.osm.pbf - but I will set up > redirects so that the old locations still work for a while. > > (b) for HTML pages > > * http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html will drop the US > states and Census regions and instead list just three sub regions > (Canada, USA, Mexico) > * new http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us.html to list US > states and census regions. > > I will make these changes incrementally over the coming days. On the > whole, this should cause minimum disruption; the only thing that will > stop working is when someone has written instructions somewhere that go > like "open the North America download page and select Iowa from the > list" but I hope that people would then be able to guess that maybe they > need to click on USA first. > > If this has any unintended consequences let me know and we'll find a way > to fix it. > > Bye > Frederik > > PS: Just like with other countries, the "all of US" file is cut out of > its parent continent file (North America) which means that those bits of > the USA that lie outside North America will not be included. This mainly > affects Puerto Rico. I'll be making a standalone Puerto Rico file > available in the Central America section. > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
