2009/1/1 Donald Campbell II <[email protected]>: > Alright so worked on making my own routable map since it appears most of the > premade ones are european. > > I couldn't get the XAPI downloads working at all, I think I saw somewhere > that it's currently not working so you have to download planet.osm instead?#
Or download a country-sized extract of the planet.osm from somewhere such as downloads.cloudmade.com Osmosis is the tool for (among other things) extracting certain areas (bounding boxes) from a planet.osm (or extract thereof). http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis > > So after not being able to get that working right I tried using JOSM for it. > Is there any script or plugin for JOSM that can take a larger area and split > it into smaller ones automatically and download it piecemeal? Trying to get > Vancouver Washington, Portland OR and Salem OR but it'll take me forever to > get little chunks downloaded one by one. > > Also FYI to all the n00bs like me out there... you won't be able to get a > large metro area of data into JOSM by double-clicking it's icon. You'll > have to manually set it's memory limit to at least 500MB or so, mine is > using about 550MB right now and I still have a lot of gaps to fill. > > java -jar -Xmx500M josm-latest.jar > Change the mem from 500 to what you need and the josm name to what you have. > > -DC >> >> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download >> >> The map you downloaded doesn't contain routing information. > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
