I'm using QGIS to make maps with OSM streetmaps data. Problem is that with QGIS -> Vector -> OSM -> download data, after about 13MB I get "Download error Operation cancelled". Sometimes I get "Download successful" after 8MB but can't import the .osm because of "XML error, Premature end of document". I reduced the areas of the download to keep the size down and two out of five were incomplete files. With Maperitive I've downloaded bigger files, from rambler.ru. Is there some setting in QGIS to change the source of the data? Or some other way of solving the problem?
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It's a limit set on the osm servers. gis.stackexchange.com/questions/12814/…– Mapperz ♦Commented Oct 17, 2013 at 19:27
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You are better off downloading the country you are interested in shapefiles etc can be downloaded from downloads.cloudmade.com or download.geofabrik.de/europe.html is more up to date– Mapperz ♦Commented Oct 17, 2013 at 19:29
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Funny enough, I have been running into the same issue tonight and fixed it in this commit
Reason
The problem is not related to the server or size, but happens due to a network timeout which by default does not take into account, that data is actually being transferred. The above-mentioned commit solves this, so it should be soon in any nightly/master build.
Workaround
Go to Settings=>Options=>Network and increase the Timeout for network requests (ms) to be large enough to transfer all the data.
answered Oct 17, 2013 at 19:41
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1That works sometimes. Increasing the timeout to 5 minutes I got 48MB intact. Next 2 downloads I got one "cancelled" at 24MB, then one "successful" (at 15MB) which was incomplete. Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 5:59