I'm setting up my own server for rendering #OSM data. There aren't a lot of times I want fast disks and processing power, but this is one. Parsing that data is a big-ass task.
I should setup a parser to extract more localized data than the entire geography of Sweden (at least it's not the planet file), as I'll probably only focus on Västerbotten or #Umeå for now. !mappers
@benediktg Cool, please do that. I bet someone else can have use of it (and it'd make it easier for me to tell people they don't have to download planet.osm for minor Umeå projects).
I myself will however keep doing it from scratch, or I won't learn anything :]