15. Oct 2018 23:56 by [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>:
> The reason > many people download country extracts from download.geofabrik.de is > probably not that the planet file isn't indexed and therefor extracting > a region is hard - it's that the planet file is huge and they don't want > to download that much. An indexed planet file would not help these users. > As user of extracts I can confirm this that size is main reason for using extracts. And download is not the only limitation. When I use small area (that can fit into RAM of my computer) then extracts are preferable over downloading file that will force my computer to swap during any, even simplest, processing.
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