If you are needing that much data I would strongly recommend starting off with an extract of the whole country and then trim out what you need using osmosis. Extract providers can be found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet#Country_and_area_extracts
And osmosis docs on trimming an extract are here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Detailed_Usage#Area_Filtering_Tasks Toby On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Mick <bare...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map > covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to Bristol > in the north east using commands like: > wget -t 0 > http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/xapi?map[bbox=-6.41,49.85,-1.68,51.56] > -O souwest.osm > > but all I can get is an error - 'connection reset by peer' or 'timeout' > > I also tried: > wget -t 0 > http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[bbox=-6,49.8,-1.0,51.6][natural=*] > -O souwest-relation-natural.osm > > but this required dozens of individual transaction to get results > osmosis refused to read. > > am I biting off more than the server can chew or using the wrong > procedure? > > could some kind soul point me in the right direction > > mick > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
