On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:41 -0700 Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote:
> > From: Mick [mailto:bare...@tpg.com.au] > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM > > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:28 -0400 > > Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 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 [ ... ] > > > > > > The Planet page points to a number of planet extracts. Will one > > > of the UK-like extracts work for you? > > > > > Sadly, no, the area is split between southwest, south, swales & > > oxford extracts with 1 to 5 mile gaps between. > > > > I have tried to fill the gaps using the export to xml feature of the > > online map but that requires a (for me at least) mind bending array > > of inconsistently sized bits. > > Would the united_kingdom extract at > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/northern_europe/united_kingdom > work? > > If not, you could try the jxapi. It is more reliable than the old > xapi, although the osm.org hosted one is currently down for > maintenance. Mapquest runs one, the details are at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Java > I've downloaded all of UK from nick.dev.openstreetmap.org and extracted the bit I want, its a bit old (28 Oct 2009) but mayhap I can update it without massive downloads. I've got most of the area current to last week. Now for a couple of weeks 'normalizing' the tags and load it into postgis. Thanks to all who replied mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
