On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:19 PM, mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, 
> storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, 
> historic, waterway, ...) from predefined subsets of the planet file.
>
> In doing this I hope to minimise:
> 1 my impact on OSM's resources
> 2 amount of data I have to download (I'm in Australia so I'm burdened with 
> 20GB monthly traffic limits).
>
> My current thinking is that I need to:

Are you aware that osmosis can merge your .osm files, and that
osm2pgsql will import only the features you select to a postgres /
postGIS database?  Comment out the features you wish to ignore in the
default.style file.

Perhaps I don't fully understand your goals.

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