Hey,

oam-fetch thoughts in order of running into them:

 * urlgrabber can't be easy_installed anymore; apparently it got pulled
   from pypi. (We aren't the only ones to get bit by this.) I'm not sure
   what the right approach is here; urlgrabber output is nice, but I'm not
   sure it's worth the difficulty in getting it installed (two-fold; lack
   of being on pypi, and the libcurl dev headers dependency for pycurl 
   support)
 * I think there's a 'bug' in oam-fetch; it seems like it's impossible to
   fetch a bbox which starts with a '-', unless I'm missing something.
   optparse tries to treat the leading - signs as options and complains that
   'there is no option -7', etc.  I hacked this locally by adding a '-b'
   option for --bbox, but maybe someone can tell me I'm crazy and this 
   isn't really a problem.
 * Should probably create (or offer to create) the output directory if the
   directory the user specified doesn't exist.
 * If it's run a second time, it should probably check if the files it is
   downloading exist first before re-fetching them; this is especially
   true because...
 * the vrt option not being on by default when downloads are enabled means
   that right now to generate a VRT you have to redownload everything. 
   Looking at the code, I guess building a vrt isn't that hard, so
   maybe this is just better answered by documentation, but it might also
   make sense when downloading into a directory to just generate an 
   'output.vrt' by default in that directory.

-- Chris   

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