Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Openmap Setup

I've downloaded the openmaps GB file - well hopefully that is what it is - by using :
wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/great_britain.osm.bz2

now to see if I can create an index on that data using the osmosis toolkit... I tried some scripts from another blog site, but no they don't work. So now I've installed postgres - using the wizard, seems to work very well on fedora.

now to decompress the mapping file - so :
bzcat great_britain.osm.bz2 > great_britain.osm
and wait....and at 3.8 GB we need to re-configure the VM for more disk space....hmm after 2 hours fiddling with Gnome Partition editor and other niceties I decided to reconfigure a new VM player, this time with 70GBs, as a starter.

So onto the openmap stuff...

there is an osmosis utility called osm2postgresql_05rc4.sh (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2postgresql) so...this needs to be continued...

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