On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:39:51 +0000 Craig Wallace <craig...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 25/02/2012 04:19, mick wrote: > > I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, > > storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, > > historic, waterway, ...) from predefined subsets of the planet file. > > > > In doing this I hope to minimise: > > 1 my impact on OSM's resources > > 2 amount of data I have to download (I'm in Australia so I'm burdened with > > 20GB monthly traffic limits). > > > > My current thinking is that I need to: > > > > 1. download the weekly England, Scotland& Wales excerpts from geofabrik > > 2. merge the 3 files > > Why not use the "Great Britain" extract from Geofabrik. It includes all > of England, Scotland and Wales, so you won't need to download them > separately then merge them. > > > Craig I didn't see it there, saw the Great Britain directory and didn't think to scroll down. That certainly reduces the load. thanks mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
