Fantastic news! Thanks for the update, Frederik.
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Martijn van Exel
m...@rtijn.org
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, at 04:06, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Dear US OSMers,
>
> for historical reasons, the layout of data for the USA on the Geofabrik
> download server has always been a bit peculiar: There wasn't a file for
> "all of the US" - there was a file for North America (including Canada
> and Mexico), and then there were files for the "Census Regions" (US
> Midwest, US Norhteast and so on, and for individual states.
>
> (The concrete historical reason is that there used to be a time when due
> to TIGER imports the US extract would have been about 95% of the North
> America file anyway, and not much would be gained by clipping Canada.
> And Mexico was initially not even part of North America on the download
> server, due to my own lack of geographic competence.)
>
> I'm in the process of straightening that out, so that there will be the
> standard structure (one file for North America, below that a file for
> USA and its neighbours, and below that the different states) in the future.
>
> In detail, this will mean the following changes:
>
> (a) for download links (pbf, bz2, diff directories etc)
>
> * North America remains unchanged.
> * US states (and Norcal/Socal) remain unchanged.
> * new http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us-latest.osm.pbf and
> ancillary files
> * the five census regions (Midwest, Northeast, Pacific, South, West)
> will be demoted by one directory from currently
> /north-america/us-midwest-latest.osm.pbf to
> /north-america/us/us-midwest-latest.osm.pbf - but I will set up
> redirects so that the old locations still work for a while.
>
> (b) for HTML pages
>
> * http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html will drop the US
> states and Census regions and instead list just three sub regions
> (Canada, USA, Mexico)
> * new http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us.html to list US
> states and census regions.
>
> I will make these changes incrementally over the coming days. On the
> whole, this should cause minimum disruption; the only thing that will
> stop working is when someone has written instructions somewhere that go
> like "open the North America download page and select Iowa from the
> list" but I hope that people would then be able to guess that maybe they
> need to click on USA first.
>
> If this has any unintended consequences let me know and we'll find a way
> to fix it.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
> PS: Just like with other countries, the "all of US" file is cut out of
> its parent continent file (North America) which means that those bits of
> the USA that lie outside North America will not be included. This mainly
> affects Puerto Rico. I'll be making a standalone Puerto Rico file
> available in the Central America section.
>
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