The German company Geofabrik is specialized to neogeography and open geospatial data. Now they provide the download of OpenStreetMaps as daily updated shapefiles.
The data on their server are regional hierarchical structured. All shapefiles are based on OpenStreetmap-raw data. This XML-based file format dist described in the OpenStreetMap-Wiki at OSM Protocol Version 0.5.
But not all layers of the available OSM data is converted special layers can be requested as additional service.
OSM data is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0-License.
[via Mapperz]
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