Yoda
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I extract the area near my home so I can load it into the GPS to see what I missed but often it just fails with:
Warning: wildcards not supported in HTTP.
–08:21:50-- http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=145.2,-38.1,145.4,-37.9]
=> vic.osm' Resolving [www.informationfreeway.org](http://www.informationfreeway.org)... 80.68.90.42 Connecting to [www.informationfreeway.org](http://www.informationfreeway.org)|80.68.90.42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: [http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/*%5bbbox=145.2,-38.1,145.4,-37.9%5d](http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/*%5bbbox=145.2,-38.1,145.4,-37.9%5d) [following] Warning: wildcards not supported in HTTP. --08:21:50-- [http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/*%5bbbox=145.2,-38.1,145.4,-37.9%5d](http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/*%5bbbox=145.2,-38.1,145.4,-37.9%5d) => vic.osm’
Resolving xapi.openstreetmap.org… 128.40.58.202
Connecting to xapi.openstreetmap.org|128.40.58.202|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 501 Internal Server Error
08:22:17 ERROR 501: Internal Server Error.
I guess the server is having problems as the command is correct as it will work a couple of times a week.
The extract command I am using is:
wget -T 540 -O home.osm http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=145.2,-38.1,145.4,-37.9]
Is this normal behavior or am I doing something wrong?
Peter…
emj
(emj)
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There is a problem with the exended api at this moment, you can check it out on the wiki Openstreetmap server status
They are trying to fix it, but 3 separate machines managed to break at the same time so I’m imagining it’s not very fun at the moment… 
Server status for osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org is declared to be up and running, but produces 501 errors in my case too.
Skywave
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There are also the ROMA servers. But i don’t know the URL for downloading data from them.