osmosis

We discussed previously how to import a single OpenStreetMap extract and avoid processing the huge, complete OSM dataset. What if your area of interest is smaller than the whole planet, but larger than a single extract?

This is what the Luxembourg extract from the previous article looks like.

But what if we want Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg?  read more »

The OpenStreetMap database gets bigger every day. The dataset is freely licensed and available in what we call a planet file. This means that if you want the OpenStreetMap dataset, you can have it. This also means that you are dealing with the entire dataset, for the whole planet, even if your interest is limited to a smaller area. If your interest is geographically limited, pushing around 6G¹ more data than you need to push around seems wasteful.  read more »

OpenStreetMap provides Free geodata and Free Software tools to use that data. A previous article demonstrates building an OpenStreetMap tile server. This article demonstrates populating it with OpenStreetMap geodata and having your server create a nice picture of a map for you.  read more »

This article is now archived as http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server-v1. The updated article is based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Build your own OpenStreetMap server. Build your own what?  read more »