My goal here was the create a routable graph for Chicago.
I used Ubuntu 12.04LTS on an m2.4xlarge just to be sure memory wasn't too much of an issue.
Start a screen
session and start downloading an OSM extract (I used this extract of Illinois). In another screen I did the following:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get -y install git make cmake build-essential \