For those who download OSM data regularly, there is now a simple way to reduce the load on the primary OSM servers, while also making download much faster and ensure the data is correct.
OpenMapTiles new tool downloads the planet from all mirrors in parallel. It usually takes just a few minutes, and it automatically verifies md5 checksum. The tool will not use the primary planet source by default. The tool can also download and validate regional extracts from geofabrik, bbbike, and osmfr. Internally the tool uses aria2c. Easiest is to use it with the docker -- share current dir with docker and save the file there. Anything after the "--" is passed to aria2c. Here's a Linux/Mac command, but should be runnable from Windows with the minor command adjustment. docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/download openmaptiles/openmaptiles-tools download-osm planet -- -d /download Use --dry-run (-n) to run it without the actual download (i.e. to see which file it would download and from what mirrors). You may also add --verbose (-v) docker run --rm -it openmaptiles/openmaptiles-tools download-osm planet --dry-run Use --help for all arguments. See source and documentation here: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles-tools#multi-streamed-osm-data-downloader P.S. Conceptually, the script is doing for OSM data what torrents were designed to do, but sadly there is no well established web of torrents that would offer similar functionality.
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