OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. The data is free, and free of legal and technical restrictions. OpenStreetMap is often shorted to OSM.
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Why does OpenLayers load OSM-like tiles, but does not show them?
I created a tile server with OSM-data in the German style. The data is quite similar to the official tile server for openstreetmap.de, provided by Fraunhofer IOSB.
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Offline usage of OpenStreetMap or alternatives
I'm planning to implement an offline map solution for windows phone using open street maps. To achieve this, would I need to download complete OSM database first and than use it? Or is possible to ...
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Calculating distance and/or time taken to travel from population centre to nearest hospital in QGIS
I'm trying to find out how long it would take to travel by car from each of the Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in Norfolk, England to the nearest Hospital (or just what the distance is and I ...
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missing tables vertices_tmp and vertices_tmp_id_seq pgrouting workshop
I'm using OSgeo 6.5 dvd and studing pgrouting workshop for get shortest path.
I created database call "routing" and used "template_routing" for create tables but only 3 tables created. So then I ...
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Converting Mapserver default URL to a more user friendly version
I use the default MapServer URL to view the map in browser.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/mwh/osm-demo/basemaps/osm-google.map&mode=browse&template=openlayers&layers=all
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OpenLayers vs Leaflet for specific app
Could anybody give me some advice on which one should I use? OpenLayers or Leaflet
I will implement OSM on a web-app for taxi management.
The requirements for the map part are:
Tracking of the ...
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add a vector point on OSM map
I have managed to show Lat and Lon
function init() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
document.getElementById('myloc').innerHTML="Latitude: " + ...
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How to render iD editor-style streetmaps?
Is there a simple way to render OSM data (let's start with just streets and names for a single metro area) client side as nodes and edges like the new iD editor?
I'm comfortable with d3 but am ...
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From OSM to shape. Parsing problem
I'm working at OpenStreetMap project for android at the moment. I want to retrieve OSM data from my app(nodes, markers and paths) and convert it to shape file (.shp, .dbf and .shx). Later, I'll load ...
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Convert OpenStreetMap schemas to ArcSDE in PostgreSQL database
I am trying to find a way to store OSM Extracts (or possibly the planetfile) in a PostgreSQL database, keep it up to date with diff files and then process the data further with ArcGIS (e.g. Geocoding, ...
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How to extract an adjacency matrix from OSM?
I would like to use graph algorithms from the Boost graph library on OSM data. What are my choices to use Openstreetmaps data from within a C++ program ? I need at least a flat file with a list of ...
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Batch convert OSM/PBF data
I need to import some OSM data about a region of Italy into a SHP file or Postgres DB, possibly with batch process.
I already use OGR2OGR to batch import data from SHP to Oracle and Postgres and I ...
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Does tile server renders every request?
I am trying to understand how tile server handle requests.
I red about Mapnik which "creates" the map using OSM,
Does "creates" means that every request is rendered and returned? If yes what is the ...
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MapInfo8.0 is not letting me edit layers imported from the server? [duplicate]
I have imported 4 layerts from my server for use in MapInfo, when i went to edit these layers the edit tool for each of these layers is grey and non accessible.
Any suggestions would be greatly ...
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Understanding the difference between coordinates projection in OSM and Google Maps
I'm looking at the coordinate differences between Google Maps and OSM. I'm a noob in the technicality behind GIS.
Having read:
EPSG 3857 or 4326 for GoogleMaps, OpenStreetMap and Leaflet
How to ...
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OpenLayers what is the last event when everything is rendered?
I have a Openlayers map with an OSM layer and a KML layer.
The KML is added by parsing some text from using OpenLayers.Format.KML (so no "loadend" event seems to fire).
What is the last event that ...
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Is there a best practices guide for adding bike infrastructure data to OSM?
Is there a best practices guide for adding bike infrastructure data to OSM? Not simply how to add a bike path, but a list of best practices for actually fleshing out sometimes disjointed bike ...
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How to create a map with OSM and webatlas.de's WMS layer?
I spent hours trying to figure out the following problem, I hope someone can help me.
You can see here that this WMS has different Projections available:
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How to access the road graph plugin in python?
I am developing a few scripts in Python for QGIS 1.8 to automate some geo-tasks and one of them would be to calculate the shortest distance from a hospital to each building in a town.
I would like to ...
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OpenLayers popup control doesn't work after selecting another control
I have created an application using OpenLayers which by default includes the navigation control and the draw feature control. These controls are selected using a control bar similar to the one shown ...
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What are the standards to implement scale bar?
I am working on .osm data files, and now i want to implement scale bar for available data.
logically i have created the scale pixel is to geo location. I want to know whether there is any standard to ...
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How to find the country in which a point is located?
I have a PostGis database created with osm2pgsql. I am looking for a way to add the country name in which a point is located to the point row. It must work also for countries with enclaves, such as ...
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How to create a suitable filtered .osm for osm2po using OpenStreetMap Overpass API?
I successfully created a (.osm) set suitable for routing in a desktop GIS over a large custom area thus keeping only primary network (way object) using the Overpass API (see below).
I'm trying this ...
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Kartograph Open Street Maps
Firstly, congratulations to Gregor Aisch for creating such a wonderful library, thank you!
I am having a little trouble rendering an svg from some osm data. I downloaded the Sweden transportation ...
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openlayers python proxy.cgi script is not taking parameters
I have setup the python proxy.cgi in cgi-bin folder in my server.
[myserver]/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi returns the openlayers website
[myserver]/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=www.openlayers.org returns list index ...
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Slippy map format
When do you decide which to use? I've started using Geoserver and it seems like map files are downloaded to the browser (using Leaflet) in the WFS format.
When I look at OSM, Mapbox etc, they use ...
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Why is osm road data showing up with lines radiating from a point?
My openstreetmap data has artifacts that I can't seem to get rid of. It is showing the roads underneath the artifacts so I know that the query is working at least partially.
The data is from ...
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Importing openstreetmaps exported OSM to opengeo using osm2pgsql problems [duplicate]
i'm having some issues when i go to import osm using osm2pgsql. My layers are showing all the roads coming from a single point. See photo link.
I have loaded the same OSM file into Qgis and ...
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How to create a printable map of labelled markers with OSM background?
I want to create an image of an OpenStreetMap map suitable for printing on A4 at 300dpi.
The map needs to have half a dozen markers/points, and each should be labeled with the name of the point.
I ...
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Is PostGIS doing a full table scan?
I am trying to retrieve all points p that are within polygons c. While building the query, I came across this strange behavior.
Question: Why does query 2 takes so long compared to query 1? Is it ...
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How to convert osm way xml to openlayers feature?
I am displaying the osm data through a popup with openlayers. For now i am using the overpass api to get data.
But my app needs to reflect the rapidly changing data i.e. one changes the data then ...
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Problems printing OpenLayers Pluggin Maps To Scale
It the print composer I can print all maps to scale and satisfactory.
However, when I add the OpenLayer, usually Bing Aerial, to the project I cannot print it out to scale.
I click the scale box, ...
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Load surface to SQL using osm2po
Does anyone know, if it is possible to make osm2po able to load extra road data into SQL file, such as the surface tag? [1] I know it is not much used, but when it is, it would be nice to know if the ...
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Using OpenLayers maxExtent on small OSM tile overlay [duplicate]
I have a small subset of OSM tiles over Australia that I want to overlay on top of my OSM tiles for the planet. If I just add them normally, I get pink tiles outside the extent of the OSM overlay. If ...
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How can I map data points to OpenStreetMap (OSM) line data?
my goal is to filter measuring points of vehicles by mapping them to streets.
So I could filter out all the false data located in fields and rivers and so on.
I imported my data into a PostGIS ...
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OGR OSM-driver unable to open datasource
I want to read an OSM file with OGR. I use Version GDAL 1.9.1, released 2012/05/15.
To read a SQLITE file works fine:
$ ogrinfo test.sqlite
INFO: Open of `test.sqlite'
using driver `SQLite' ...
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How to convert the OSM coordination system to map another?
I have used SVG maps for some infrastructure then tried to use the Inkscape to define the x,y for each needed point. I want to re-construct the map with these needed points using JOSM editor but ...
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Why is it so hard to download only a part of OSM data by attribute tag?
Is there any online service that allows to download only one thematic layer of the OSM data for a specific geographic region? For example all objects related to vegetation (trees, grassland,...), but ...
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Move OpenLayers.Popup up to 10 pixel and left 15 pixel?
good afternoon, I have a popup that is in the map and I want only move 10 pixels high and 15 pixels to the left, the problem is that when you change its position in latitude and longitude, is in ...
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Saving part of OSM shapefile in QGIS as GeoJSON strips 'name' field to 25 characters long
I want to copy part of OSM data in ESRI Shapefile (downloaded from http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/ukraine.html ) and save in in GeoJSON to style later in Tilemill.
After saving, I see that ...
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Driving directions and multi-modal route planning service for a city with OpenStreetMap data
First off I'd like to mention that I've never come close to anything-GIS until a few weeks ago when I thought of this. So please expect some layman's questions. I'm looking to create driving ...
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Shows Netherlands region on map on every zoom level not other region in Open Street Maps
I want to show/display only Netherland region on Openstreet map, dont want to show other region on maps. Same thing apply for zoom in or zoom out also.
I have tried with applying bounds but does not ...
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How to convert OSM relation xml data to shape file [closed]
I would like to transform the xml data here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Berlin/Transportation into shape files or load into postGIS.
I think the thing I am missing is how these xmls files, ...
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osm2pgsql Error: operator class “gist_geometry_ops” does not exist for access method “gist”
When using osm2pgsql to import massachusetts-latest.osm.bz2 into PostGIS 2.0.1 database osm (running on PostgreSQL 9.1 on an Ubuntu 12.04), I get the error failed: ERROR: operator class ...
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What format is lat/long stored in OSM PostGIS?
Question:
How do I to get the lat, long for all the toll booths stored in OSM for Virginia?
Current Query:
> gis=# select * from planet_osm_nodes where ('toll_booth' = ANY(tags));
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OpenStreetMap data into ESRI CityEngine [duplicate]
I am trying to download building footprints from OpenStreetMap so I can import them into ESRI's CityEngine but I am only able to download road files (as routes), as seen below.
I am trying to ...
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What Spatial Reference System do I store Google Map's Lat/Lng in
I am new to PostGIS, Spatial Reference Systems and projections and want to store lat/lng coordinates retrieved from Google Maps and Openstreetmap and its services like the Geocoder/Nominatim. I'm ...
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Where can I get public transportation locations for USA
I am trying to find a list of all public transportation/transit locations like subway stations, airports, bus terminals and bus stops for USA. Only major transit locations are required, rural bus ...
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Some highways segments ignored by osm2po?
Where i can read why some roads/segments are disappear from routing? We are trying to comment all "wtr.deny" rules in config file, but nothing changed.
Examples added as links bellow.
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Value at a particular spot on Geoserver Heatmap
Geoserver is drawing from a PostGIS database to generate a heatmap using this SLD extension. Leaflet then overlays the heatmap over the base layer.
Question: How can you determine the value at a ...
