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by Boothroid 3154 days ago
Global OSM is 40Gb or so - there are various libraries to translate it but as you can imagine, the sheer size of the dataset causes challenges. You also have to make choices about how you translate the attributes - for example, if you want to pull certain tags from the key:value field into separate columns in a table. Yet another issue involves source and target geometries - there can be inconsistencies in how features of the same type are recorded in OSM in terms of geometry, and so getting disparate input types translated into a single output type involves choices. Yes you can easily (after a wait!) get global OSM translated into something else, but making that something else exactly what you need can take effort.