[Qgis-user] Importing open street map .osm files

[Andre Joost]

Am 27.05.2014 17:27, schrieb G. Allegri:
> Andre,
> the example about way with id=204549674 [1] reported in the issue is a good
> one. The downloaded OSM contains the way and all its nodes, but it isn't
> passed to the polylines layer.

If you take the download link at
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/204549674>
it gives you the node numbers, but no coordinates. So you have to add a 
/full to get them:

<http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/204549674/full>


> How would you ask the Overpass API to download also the nodes of the ways
> that are made by the nodes in a certain bbox without hitting against
> recursion?
>
> Martin suggested something like
> http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=(node(14.3833,104.638,14.4167,104.706);way(bn);node(w););out
> ;
> It works because it's a small area, and Overpass can support it, but if you
> enlarge the bbox it will fail...

If you take the whole continent, it will surely fail, unless you have 
set other filters.

If you are hitting those limits, a osm2pgsql or GDAL import from 
Geofabrik extracts are the only solution. You can reduce those with 
osmfilter to speed up your import. This is a kind of offline equivalent 
to Overpass filtering.

HTH,
André Joost