Forum:Extracts

Is there a recommnded way to extract part of FOSM database in order to, say, load it into mobile navigation app or similar?

What I know so far is that one can use xapi in following way: wget -O file_name.osm "http://xapi.fosm.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=left,bottom,right,top" However, this is too slow at the moment to be usable. Also, if this is accessing live database, then by (over)using this api one might choke the database.

So, is there another way? Or are there some extracts or mirrors or other ways to get data? Even if they are few days old this is still usable (in that case I would only like to know extraction date).

On page Fosm on Garmin I've found a link to http://fosm.org/planet/country_extracts/, but this only points to empty page.

DarkoS (talk) 19:12, May 5, 2013 (UTC)