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 reason it shouldn't >> work. It makes working with osmosis a much gentler experience ;). >> [1] http://osmembrane.de/ > > I'm not sure if downloading a second package is really what I have in > mind: just a simple howto which uses dos file paths rather than linux > ones, and tells me which bits are programs (which need to be > obtained), and which bits are commands to those programs. > > I'm sure it's not that difficult to puzzle out, but a few clues would > make it easier.
This older tutorial includes using osmosis to extract a bounding box. http://weait.com/content/make-your-first-map In the example, the heavy lifting is done here. ./bin/osmosis --read-xml /home/username/planet-090311.osm.gz --bounding-box left=-94 bottom=38 right=-71.5 top=50 --write-xml /home/username/GreatLakes.osm.gz simplifying that by removing paths leaves: osmosis --read-xml planet-090311.osm.gz --bounding-box left=-94 bottom=38 right=-71.5 top=50 --write-xml GreatLakes.osm.gz Which is one command with three arguments. "osmosis" command. This is the only program. "--read-xml" use an xml-file for input with filename planet-090311.osm.gz "--bounding-box" take to portion of the data that is within the bounding box in the four sub-arguments " left=-94 bottom=38 right=-71.5 top=50" "--write-xml" ... and write it as an xml-file with filename GreatLakes.osm.gz With the filepaths removed from the filenames, I expect that your operating system will only look for, or save, the files in the present working directory. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk