Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-20 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 19.05.2011 12:51, schrieb Frederik Ramm: Hi, by popular demand ;) http://download.geofabrik.de/clipbounds/ Please make sure to read the README file there. You write there that the cutting is done sequentially from large to small. Seeing as how the polygon complexity is one major

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/20/11 14:09, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: You write there that the cutting is done sequentially from large to small. Seeing as how the polygon complexity is one major factor in the cutting process, wouldn't it make sense to use more smaller, more precise polygons to cut out the small stuff

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/19/2011 06:44 AM, Hermann Peifer wrote: Are the boundary polygons that you use for clipping available somewhere? I do vaguely remember that I have seen them earlier, but I can't find them anymore. No, they aren't publicly available but I send them to people on request. There's

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-19 Thread Hermann Peifer
On 19/05/2011 08:10, Frederik Ramm wrote: No, they aren't publicly available but I send them to people on request. There's really no reason to keep them secret, I just haven't set up a mechanism to automatically put them on the server because I didn't think people were all that interested. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org schrieb: Hi, On 05/19/2011 06:44 AM, Hermann Peifer wrote: Are the boundary polygons that you use for clipping available somewhere? I do vaguely remember that I have seen them earlier, but I can't find them anymore. No, they aren't publicly available but I

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-19 Thread Frank Fesevur
2011/5/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: On 05/19/2011 06:44 AM, Hermann Peifer wrote: Are the boundary polygons that you use for clipping available somewhere? I do vaguely remember that I have seen them earlier, but I can't find them anymore. No, they aren't publicly available but I

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-19 Thread Hermann Peifer
On 19/05/2011 11:09, Frank Fesevur wrote: It would be interesting for me if I could just review those polygons on a map. Indeed. Why not on an Open Street Map? For Denmark, it would expect the bounding polygon it to look like a simplified version of:

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, by popular demand ;) http://download.geofabrik.de/clipbounds/ Please make sure to read the README file there. Regarding boundaries, I prefer geographical over political grouping. The Azores are part of the Europe extract but they are not part of the Portugal extract; likewise,

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-05 Thread Hendrik Oesterlin
Frederik Ramm wrote on 04/05/2011 at 17:26:27 +1100 subject [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update : I have added a New Caledonia extract, and it should be there daily from tomorrow. Thank you for adding New Caledonia! It has appeared on http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/australia-oceania

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-05 Thread Richard Mann
Would it be too much to ask that the osmosis.bat file tried some of the more obvious places that java might have put itself, rather than just falling over. Checking in C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin might not be a bad idea and giving an error message telling you what to do about it (if it

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hendrik, On 05/04/11 00:44, Hendrik Oesterlin wrote: It is included, but ADSL in New Caledonia is expensive and therefor quite slow (256kb downstream). I have added a New Caledonia extract, and it should be there daily from tomorrow. Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-04 Thread Matthias Julius
Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org schrieb: Hi, Matthias Julius wrote: One option would be to run osmosis with clipIncompleteEntities=false (the default). That would not increase the burden on your box and still allow the extracts to be merged. Of course, this would leave it up to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/03/11 07:07, Hendrik Oesterlin wrote: Would it be possible to add New Caledonia in .pbf to http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/australia-oceania/ I'd love to but before I start making smaller files for Australia I think I'll do something in the US. I suggest that for the time being

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread David Murn
New Caledonia is not part of Australia. It is approx 2000km east of the closest point in Australia, about the same distance as New Zealand is. Does the Australia file (which doesnt seem to be on that linked page at the moment) cover the entire oceania region? Maybe its worth looking at putting

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread NopMap
Thank you for improving the IMHO most important additional service in OSM! bye Nop -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Geofabrik-Download-Server-Update-tp6264407p6326736.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Mann
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I suggest that for the time being you download the 160 MB full Australia file and cut out New Caledonia yourself with Osmosis. Is there a guide somewhere to using osmosis on Windows. Maybe just a simple bounding-box

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I suggest that for the time being you download the 160 MB full Australia file and cut out New Caledonia yourself with Osmosis.

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/03/11 10:48, David Murn wrote: New Caledonia is not part of Australia. Bummer. I must have mixed it up with New South Wales or whatever the place is called. I'll check but I think that the NC area should be in the australia+oceania extract. Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Mann
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Richard: You can consider using osmembrane[1] which is a GUI on top of osmosis. I haven't tested it on Windows but I guess there's no reason it shouldn't work. It makes working with osmosis a much gentler experience ;).

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Richard: You can consider using osmembrane[1] which is a GUI on top of osmosis. I haven't tested it on Windows but I guess there's no

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Richard: You can consider using osmembrane[1] which is a GUI on top of osmosis. I haven't tested it on Windows but I guess

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Kai Krueger
Frederik Ramm wrote: I'd love to but before I start making smaller files for Australia I think I'll do something in the US. That would be great! Currently, I think only Cloudmade are offering state level extracts (much more managable than the larger extracts) for the US and unfortunately

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Matthias Julius
Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com schrieb: Altogether, I think those daily country extracts are one of the most useful tools for working with OSM data, so I'd like to send a great thanks to Geofabrik for providing the resource to offer this valuable service. I agree. But, I need to point out

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Matthias, Matthias Julius wrote: But, I need to point out again that theese extracts are not quite as useful as they could be, IMHO. Unless something has been changed, ways that cross the bounding polygon are trunkated at the last node inside the polygon. I have started to slowly introduce

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Matthias Julius
Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org writes: Matthias, Matthias Julius wrote: But, I need to point out again that theese extracts are not quite as useful as they could be, IMHO. Unless something has been changed, ways that cross the bounding polygon are trunkated at the last node inside the

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matthias Julius wrote: One option would be to run osmosis with clipIncompleteEntities=false (the default). That would not increase the burden on your box and still allow the extracts to be merged. Of course, this would leave it up to the data consumer to deal with the incomplete ways and

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Hendrik Oesterlin
Frederik Ramm wrote on 03/05/2011 at 21:59:45 +1100 subject [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update : I'll check but I think that the NC area should be in the australia+oceania extract. It is included, but ADSL in New Caledonia is expensive and therefor quite slow (256kb downstream). I

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Frederik, Excuse me for jumping in here without knowing much of the background, but: Frederik Ramm wrote: I need to use simplified polygons; cutting out a country with a 15k node polygon would take forever. Is your point-in-polygon test O(N) in the size of the polygon? You can do much

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Phil, On 05/04/11 01:48, Phil Endecott wrote: I need to use simplified polygons; cutting out a country with a 15k node polygon would take forever. Is your point-in-polygon test O(N) in the size of the polygon? You can do much better than that. I use Osmosis, which in turn uses whatever Java

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-02 Thread Hendrik Oesterlin
Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote on 12/04/2011 at 20:17:37 +1100 subject [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update : Together with the added disk space on the download server this means that I can continue supporting the bz2 format indefinitely, although I expect it gradually to fall

[OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-04-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, for a few years now, the Geofabrik download server (download.geofabrik.de) has been serving various, daily updated, regional OSM extracts, in XML and shape file form, and for the last half year also in PBF form. After a few hiccups in the past weeks, I have moved the server to new

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-04-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:17 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Before, the .pbf and .bz2 and .shp files were all created on a machine in the Geofabrik office and uploaded to the download server for distribution, and with the office only having 10 MBit upstream connectivity, there was a limit to

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-04-12 Thread charlie
Frederik Ramm (frede...@remote.org) wrote: Hi, for a few years now, the Geofabrik download server (download.geofabrik.de) has been serving various, daily updated, regional OSM extracts, in XML and shape file form, and for the last half year also in PBF form. After a few hiccups in