Why the entire planet is not available: I wanted to host it on an inexpensive server (only what's needed), generate maps only for regions that are popular among

Why the entire planet is not available: I wanted to host it on an inexpensive server (only what's needed), generate maps only for regions that are popular among my target segment (popular tourist destinations mostly) since compute was also an issue - I generated all the maps on a VM on my desktop. I download the openstreetmap data to my local hard disk for the regions I need, generate the maps using mapnik and extract poi data using python utilities that I wrote. Not a whole lot of tweaking but I did have to write my own tools.