[guwop]

Hmmmm. If i want to do larger scale extractions of OSM data into a layer - what's the move? I remember someone on here posted a way to do it

[twp]

I wrote https://github.com/twpayne/osm-extract for exactly this.

[ikawe]

I typically download a pbf extract, and then use the osmium cli for local filtering.

Then I use ogr2ogr to convert to whatever output format I need.