Timeline for Where can I find Road shapefile/e00/etc for the entire world?
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| Jan 31, 2012 at 19:54 | vote | accept | Michael Markieta | ||
| Jan 31, 2012 at 19:47 | comment | added | Michael Markieta | @Mapperz, Thank you very much! First time I've seen this. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 18:41 | comment | added | Mapperz♦ | Michael from your blog you use FME? use the OSM API and the Http fetcher to extract the roads - this will reduce the amount of data. redgeographics.com/en/about-us/red-blog/… | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 18:35 | comment | added | Michael Markieta | @dassouki Computing/Memory constraint. How do I get around this? AFAIK, you would run out of RAM before you could parse the entire dataset and write it to your PostGIS(or other) database. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 18:35 | history | edited | Mapperz♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2012 at 18:32 | comment | added | dassouki | @MichaelMarkieta Why is it unfeasible? | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 18:30 | comment | added | Michael Markieta | I've used OSM. Very familiar with it. However, parsing the entire planet.osm is not feasible. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 18:28 | history | answered | Mapperz♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |