[Qgis-user] trouble getting data from OpenStreetMap

[Etienne Trimaille]

Good morning,

2016-04-29 6:47 GMT+07:00 Stephen Sacks <sacks44 at earthlink.net>:

>   I chose Manual and entered longitudes -77.0 and -70.0, and lat's 44.0
> and 41.0, which roughly encompasses New York and Massachusetts. After some
> back-and-forth of the progress bar, an .osm file of size 337 bytes appeared
> on my hard drive and  I got a message saying "Download has been successful."
>

I don't know why QGIS says "Download has been successful", but obviously
337 bytes is not enough.
Your bounding box is far too big to download for a request on the fly. You
should download your data using external services like
http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html

This tool in QGIS can download a neighborhood or a small town.
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