Because of you "Gruß", I guess you are speaking german. Try: http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html
Marco Tim Teulings schrieb: > Hello! > > For a Open Source project idea of mine I need vector data (with a good > enough resolution to display a country on screen, so no high resolution > stuff) for > * Continent borders (earth shape) > * Country borders (together with country name) > * Country capitals with position and name > * Big (well known) cities > * Selected POIs > > (a little bit more as you would see on a wall map of the world) > > Searching the web I found natural earth data, which offers most of this, but > since I would like to use OpenStreetMap data and in fact it in another > project already used it I would like to get my data from OSM if possible. > However while it seems like the data is there, I have not yet found a more > convinient way than downloading a planet.osm and do some (heavy, heavy) > postprocessing (Postgres, coastline... :-/). As you might image this is more > than inconvinient (I likely need to by a new hard disk for this and have a > talk with my provider first ;-)). > > Are there existing exports that already contain above data and are much > smaller than planet.osm? Is there another (simple) way to get parts of above > data? > > I do not have a problem with sticking the different information together > from different sources, I'm also a programmer, I already have a *.osm > scanner and can postprocess data to further filter out. I can also downstrip > data to reduce resolution, but planet.osm is just too heavy for this (for > me). > > I would appreciate any help, hint or link. > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
