Planet.osm

Planet.osm is a snapshot made by Steve of the latest revision of the nodes, segments, and ways in the database from start of April 2006. It contains neither a history nor the traces gps logs behind the data.

For anonymous download you can use the links below. View some Stats about the data.

Original URL:

• http://steve.dev.openstreetmap.org/planet.osm.bz2

Mirrors (probably faster and you don't disturb the osm server ;)

• http://cjb.ie/planet-osm/
• http://www.imag.fr/planet.osm.bz2
• http://www.ostertag.name/osm/planet/planet-2006-7-a.osm.bz2 (bz2,7z, osm versions available)
• http://www.rhyspowell.com/osm/ (bz2 and zip versions available)
• http://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/josm (slow)
• http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/osm/ (100KB/s download with history)

Unpacking the File

The downloaded file is XML packed with bzip2. bzip2 is a common compressor like zip or gzip.

Linux has no problem with bzip2. Use the command line to extract and it gives you an 80MB XML file.

 bzip2 -d planet.osm.bz2 

Windows needs a bit of help. http://www.7-zip.org/ works nicely and is free. Cygwin is another free option for Windows (providing not only bzip2 but also a very complete Unix-like compatibility layer with a full set of GNU tools, allowing Windows users to do much of what Linux users can do).

Stuff done with planet.osm

• planet.osm in GPSDrive imports the OSM data in the GPSDrive routing application.
• Map of OSM coverage in Europe is just a picture of the coverage of OSM of europe
• Importing Planet.osm into QGIS
• Print OpenStreetMap with Gnuplot print the world into PDF files.
• Little-osm is a stand-alone webserver capable of importing planet.osm and deliver /map requests. It works with JOSM as an offline, read-only installation.

Statistics

• Statistics/Errors
• OJW's planet.osm stats page