Count number of ways in a bounding box

General talk
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I would like to perform a bounding-box query and count the number of ways, stopping when I reach a threshold. I don’t see how to do this in osmosis, so I’m open to any command-line tool that can do it for me. This is in order to create a binary search tree for the planet.osm file.

Any ideas?

2

I do not know of any existing tool capable of doing this. You will probably need to write your own…

3

Didn’t you link to an autosplitter which is used for garmin maps?

4

Splitterp splits OSM data based on a questimate of the resulting Garmin map tile size, not based upon a number of ways.