[mkgmap-dev] [locator] Europe boundary data for download

Fri May 13 17:58:37 BST 2011

I am not an osmosis expert but I guess that you loose a fair amount of 
boundaries with your parameters. All ways that are not tagged with 
boundary=administrative but are used in a boundary relation should be 
missing in your osm file.

WanMil

> A few days ago I tried --rb file=d:\europe.osm.pbf --tf accept-ways
> boundary=administrative --used-node --write-xml
> file=d:\mkgmap-europe-boundaries.osm
>
> Thus I created 1.508 bounds files and a workable map (still a few
> problems finding cities and streets through cities ->  selects streets,
> but the bypass to select all streets works for these incidental
> problems). I'm looking forward to Wanmils update and debug tools!
>
> Cheers Johan
>
>
>
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:53:00 +0200, WanMil wrote:
>> I have managed (with the help of OSMembrane) to put the whole osmosis
>> steps into one command:
>>
>> osmosis.bat ^
>> --read-pbf file=europe.osm.pbf outPipe.0=1 ^
>> --tee 2 inPipe.0=1 outPipe.0=2 outPipe.1=3 ^
>> --buffer inPipe.0=3 outPipe.0=4 ^
>> --buffer inPipe.0=2 outPipe.0=5 ^
>> --tag-filter accept-relations boundary=administrative inPipe.0=4
>> outPipe.0=6 ^
>> --used-way inPipe.0=6 outPipe.0=7 ^
>> --tag-filter reject-relations inPipe.0=5 outPipe.0=8 ^
>> --tag-filter accept-ways boundary=administrative inPipe.0=8
>> outPipe.0=9 ^
>> --used-node inPipe.0=9 outPipe.0=10 ^
>> --used-node inPipe.0=7 outPipe.0=11 ^
>> --merge inPipe.0=10 inPipe.1=11 outPipe.0=12 ^
>> --write-pbf file=europe-boundaries.osm.pbf omitmetadata=true
>> compress=deflate inPipe.0=12
>>
>>
>> Anyhow processing of whole europe takes a very long time and the pbf
>> file is growing only within the last minutes. You can check the
>> ongoing
>> osmosis processing in the directory
>> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp (Win7). Osmosis creates files
>> named afnd*.tmp, afwy*.tmp and afrl*.tmp that are constantly getting
>> larger during processing.
>>
>> I think I will recreate the european bounds during the next days and
>> will commit some additional useful debug tools for these files.
>>
>> WanMil
>>
>>
>>> I have tried to compile a Europe bounds set but still get stuck on
>>> the first step. Somehow I can't write the results to a pbf or osm
>>> file. My osmosis options are:
>>>
>>> set OSMOSIS_OPTIONS=--read-pbf c:\downloads\europe.osm.pbf
>>> --bounding-box bottom=41 left=-6 top=57 right=16 --tf accept-ways
>>> boundary=administrative --used-node --write-pbf bways.osm.pbf
>>>
>>> I'm using osmosis v0.39, OS is windows vista 32 bits
>>>
>>> This results after a few hours in a bways.osm.pbf of 130 bytes :-(
>>>
>>> Will there be a new European bounds file available soon?
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