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#1 2011-05-21 10:03:27
- Mako Shark
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Downloading large areas
I am working on Open Sea Map and I need to download it for use on my GPS. In the past, I have downloaded the UK coastline and marine marks using http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6. This has become so slow and unreliable, it is just about useless. 
Is there a better way to download the full UK or other large areas?
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#2 2011-05-21 14:13:37
- Vclaw
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Re: Downloading large areas
For full countries, you should use Planet extracts. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Plan … ownloading
Geofabrik provide extracts for most countries/regions in Europe. See http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/
They don't seem to have an extract just for the UK, but there is extracts for "British Isles" or "Great Britain", plus separate ones for Scotland/England/Wales etc.
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#3 2011-05-21 21:28:06
- Mako Shark
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Re: Downloading large areas
Discovered this shortly after posting but thanks anyway. Now I just need to work out why osmosis encounters an error when I try to filter seamarks out of the Great Britain file. It works for just scotland so I probably just need to do it in smaller sections.
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