How to download the data

Posted Mar 19, 2009 14:47 UTC (Thu) by deleteme (guest, #49633)
Parent article: OpenStreetMap: the data behind the maps

The link for downloading the OSM data was pointing at GPS track log database, which is interesting but not what you want, to download use:

Live map data, always current
wget http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=left,bottom,right,top

Filtering server that lets you choose what to download (10 min old)(read moe about xapi
curl -g http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/bbox=left,bottom,right,top -o data.osm

Delivering bulk data (10 min old) (read more about ROMA)
wget http://api1.osm.absolight.net:8080/api/0.5/map?bbox=left,bottom,right,top