There are a few ways to extract data: 1. Use JOSM to download a chunk (this is what I do if I'm editing the map) 2. Use an API like Overpass to download large

There are a few ways to extract data: 1. Use JOSM to download a chunk (this is what I do if I'm editing the map) 2. Use an API like Overpass to download larger datasets (e.g. "all the drinking fountains in North America") 3. Use a QGIS plugin to download the data directly into a project (this is what I do if I'm making a paper or PDF map) Once you have the data in OSM format (just another point/line/poly XML format), you can convert it to other things with a tool like GPSBabel. Re blocked on doing things you want, I think I tempered that with what I could do. And I was "lucky" that my burnout job was so time-consuming that I was unable to really spend money or take vacations. So I had plenty banked to be lazy. "Don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Look at my cousin--he's broke, don't do shit." --Lawrence, Office Space The bummer was when I'd iterate through the list of things I could do, and zero of them appealed. That was a hard place to be. One trick I used there was to increase the size of the list of things I could do. I did this by writing down every idea I was even inspired by. ("Learn to sketch landscapes!") Then I had a big list for inspiration. The larger that list, the less likely I was to come up dry when looking for a task for the day. If you simply can't financially afford to decompress, that seems a harder problem. I don't have a good answer there, except maybe a different gig entirely, tighten the belt, work with your SO to get through it, etc.