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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EPSG 3857 or 4326 for GoogleMaps, OpenStreetMap and Leaflet
The discussion at What is the difference between WGS84 and EPSG4326? shows that 4326 is just the EPSG identifier of WGS84..
Wikipedia entries for Google Maps and OpenStreetMap shows that they both ...
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How can I assign road names from OSM to gis linestrings using open source tools?
Starting with a shapefile of linestrings I want to assign street names to these lines if there is a match with a road/street in OpenStreetMap.
There are no exact matches as the linestrings have a ...
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OpenStreetMap data at different scales
Could anyone just clear up a question regarding openstreetmap data. Are there different OSM data sets for the various set scales, or do the data get generalized on-the-fly when the map is zoomed out ...
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How to print/plot a city map from OSM data with tools like QGIS, GRASS, openJUMP?
The question is, once set up Geoserver and having all layers accesible, we need to print a portion of the city in a paper of size A0.
When I wan to print a city, if I zoom to the city extent, I loose ...
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Where can I find High Quality Road Network Information
I am carrying out a research on how complex city road networks get and I need to get accurate map information.
I started with openstreetmaps however I ran into a couple of issues: some of the dumps ...
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Column “osm_meta” in osm2po 4.6.9
What's the utility of *osm_meta* column in osm2po (Version: 4.6.9) generated data?
Thanks in advance!
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Hosted nominatim services
Are there hosted nominatim services that can do all it's duties (particularly reverse-geocoding) all over the world?
We have a high volume of lookups (we dont want to be throttled) but we want to ...
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How to get a larger map from OSM2GIS?
My title is more than understandable,but the explanation part is that when i try to take a part that is larger than a big city i get an explanation that is to big for "trim".I tried to get whole ...
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Add bunch of numbered locations?
To avoid carrying books and optimize things while traveling, I like to build a Google Map with sights and cafés/restaurants. I usually print it on paper or keep a PDF in my phone so that I don't pay ...
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Styling map elements based on their properties
I am currently generating tiles based on OSM data using Mapnik and Python and am quite happy using the XML styling but I am at a loss as to how to vary the styling on an element by element basis.
I ...
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Raster to vector conversion
I have a bunch of raster maps from a general plan of a city.
Examples:
Areas reserved for federal, regional and municipal buildings
Special land use zones
Zoning
Risks of occurrence of emergencies
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How to Determine to world map size in pixel given this data?
How to Determine the world map size in pixels given this data?
Map size of a particular area say, for example:
Makati city, Philippines with bounds:
Top-Right: 121.0281, 14.56497
Bottom-Left: ...
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How to interpolate polyline or line from points?
We have a lot of points, but with no timestamps to create ways. For now, I've created a sample of the way the points traverse. It's in here, this way can be compared with a Google one.
I haven't ...
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Creating a fully custom map using OSM infrastructure
I would like to make a fully custom map (fictional, have to start from scratch basically) and use the OSM tools to make following things possible:
crowd editing - the source data which is used to ...
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Getting lane data from OSM
I want to extract road network data from OSM for a small city.
From where can I get the lane information of any road in OSM.
I tried exporting the data in the OSM XML format and there was no lane ...
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Apply QGIS Style to osm-File like in Open Cycle Map, Landscape Base-Layer
I try to mimick a rendering style like in Open Cycle Map (landscape base layer) in QGIS. However, I'm not able to find certain elements (i.e., wood and rivers) that are used in Open Cycle Map but seem ...
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Keep Getting Black OSM Tiles in Openlayers
When trying to view OSM tiles using the external storage example of OpenLayers,
I keep getting black tiles when I zoom in and out.
I don't know what the issue is but every time I zoom in/out there ...
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OpenStreetMap Tiles Not Loading in Firefox 17.0.1 - Pink Background [closed]
I recently ran into an issue where only a pink background is displayed in the openstreetmap on my webpage (tiles are not displaying). I found this topic OpenStreetMap tiles not loaded despite being ...
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openstreetmaps offline tile packs
Is there a place where I could download openstreetmaps tile packs for the united states? I would like to have offline access for the whole country.
Thanks,
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Unencoding JSON output from OSRM
I set up Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM). The documentation does a pretty good job of laying everything out and I was able to get a server set up and running on my machine. My question is about ...
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Offline data and less space with Ruby
I have a very specific problem. I am trying to build an offline map on leaflet, rhomobile(based on ruby) and OSM data.
The problem is that I am making now a offline layer images folder with the city ...
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Print Map as Tiles in QGIS or using any software.?
i need to print a detailed map, on a street level zoom of Metro Manila. i figured to do this i need to download map tiles, but that will be a breach on map usage in OSM. then i found this website, ...
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How to find the nearest city for a POI in a OpenStreetMap/PostGIS database?
I'm interested in finding additional data for the POIs in OSM database.
Currently I can use the following SQL for getting the name+long+lat for all the POIs
SELECT name,
x(transform(way, ...
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How to set up an OSM routing server
I would like to set up an OSM routing server on my LAMP stack. I am interested in doing a lot of of routing queries. I have a search function that is closely related to getting the driving distance ...
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Using TileDrawer with Ubuntu
Is there a specific tutorial on using http://tiledrawer.com/ with Ubuntu ?
The instructions are not very clear on the webpage itself.
Thanks.
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slow import via osm2pgsql to postgresql database
I try to import berlin.osm (33Mb) into the postgres database 9.1 via osm2pgsql. My desktop is mem 2Gb,proc 2Ghz,hdd 60Gb, RHEL6u2x64. This process is so slowly in particular when I'm going over ...
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Openstreetmap - retrieve nearby big cities for a given location
I was wondering how I can retrieve places near a given location?
For example, if I pass the osm API the location "Paris" is it possible to retrieve all the main biggest cities around Paris within a ...
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OSM Python Utils: Modifying generate_tiles.py to create 512 x 512 tiles?
[Edited to include example image outputs]
SE folks, I'm wanting to modify generate_tiles.py to create 512 x 512 tiles.
At om_henners' recommendation, I tried replacing 12 of the 13 instances of 256 ...
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OSM data imported. Next?
The data was imported using the following command:
osmosis --read-pbf file="/usr/local/lib/geoserver-2.1.3/data_dir/argentina.osm.pbf" --write-pgsql database="argosm" password="1234.5" user="argosm"
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Use OpenStreetMap in Basemapgallery - Manually
I dont know how to add the OpenStreetMap to the basemapgallery. I want to do this manually because when i use ShowARCGIS basemaps:true i get too many basemaps i dont use.
Here's my code:
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Using OpenLayers with OSM as map
Got this code from a teacher and I don't know what I am doing wrong! I have searched around but I can't find the error. Visual Basic shows no error.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 ...
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How can I relate between street and city in OSM imported data into SQL?
I've used OSM2MSSQL to fill db with 2 cities streets. Now I have the following tables in my DB :
tNode
tNodeTag
tRelation
tRelationMember
tRelationTag
tTagText
tWay
tWayCreation
tWayTag
How ...
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Where can I download the metro (subway) stations of Paris from OpenStreetMap?
Just getting acquainted with OSM (OpenStreetMap), so this might be a total newbie question, but I'm looking for OSM Point of Interest data of all metro-stations in Paris.
I'm sure this info should ...
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Issues with OSM Plugin in QGIS on Ubuntu 12.04
(not sure how to wrap the subject into a question! But...)
Here are some issues I've been having with the OSM plugin:
1) When I bring in the .OSM file, close QGIS, then reopen, I get a "Handle Bad ...
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How do you label .OSM data in QGIS? [closed]
Using QGIS, adding .OSM data from the toolbar works great - that is, the features look great.
However, I've been having a hard time working with labeling .OSM lines in QGIS.
There are several posts ...
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Where can I find map icons for famous Paris landmarks?
Title says it all: looking for icons for famous landmarks in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, Notre Dame. These should do. For other poi's I have general category-icons, but ...
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error in data read in OSMembrane osmosis
I am just learning to use OSMembrane, and i created a simple pipeline to read an .osm file and write the same in another file.
But it says error in reading the file. The report is like this and I ...
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Do vertex IDs stay the same every time I run osm2po?
Does anybody knows if vertex (source, target columns) in osm2po tables are always the same?
I have my dr_2po_4pgr table with routing data and dr_matrix with routes already made. In this table I have ...
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data type conversion extracting user defined tags as columns using Openstreetmap data
we have an ,osm data in which we have used some tags that we defined ourselves like, age, roof_type, roof_slope . we want to convert this file to shapefile, in which the roof_type tag appears as a ...
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How to get bounding box from coordinates (latitude, longitude), zoom level and size (screen)?
Is possible to get bounding box from coordinates (latitude, longitude), zoom level and size (screen)? I found only calculating bounding box from tile. I need it, because OpenStreetMap accept only bbox ...
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Where can I get public transportation route information for USA?
I'm trying to find a list of public transit route information, mainly location of bus and train stops for the US. I've looked around at some of the Google products and openstreetmap but can't find ...
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What can go wrong in UTM to WGS1984 conversion (shifted data)
I try to convert .shp files to OSM data with shp2osm and ogr2osm but the output data is shifted.
Semi-Cross-Posting Warning: I have already asked a questions on the OSM help site, but this questions ...
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How to integrate Open street map in Rails3.2 using Mongodb?
I'm planning to use Open street map in my Rails app to track locations, Can any one guide how to integrate Open street map with Rails 3.2, using MongoDB.
Thanks
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Detect city from coordinates
I need to know how to detect which city belong certain coordinates.
Wich is the best way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Pd: excuse my english
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OpenLayers OSM tile boundary
I have a local tile source of OSM tiles. I'd like to show the tile zoom, x, y on the tile so that I can optimize and create small offline groups of tile for specific areas(polygons).
I can get the ...
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How to extract a single road from OSM GIS Database?
Is there a way to extract a single row out of the OSM-GIS-Database (by a Query).
It would be so much easier, if I could find an EER Model of the Database.
I was searching a long term and found very ...
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Does anybody know a service that exports OSM maps to georeferenced GeoTiff files?
Does anyone of you know if there is a service available for exporting OSM-maps in the Geo-Tiff format?
best regards
desputin
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OpenLayers XYZ Unable to Load Local Tiles
I have some local tiles that were generated from OpenStreetMaps using Maperitive. I've tried going through the docs and tests but the map is not loading. I'm not getting any errors in chrome's js ...
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From pgRouting shortest_path back to osm node id
I'm successfully performing path finding queries like shortest_path on data imported with osm2pgrouting.
The tables I have inside my pgrouting DB are the following:
List of relations
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Join multiple spatial tables by distance
I'm trying to join two tables, one which contains road names and the other just a point. After exhausting research I'm now stuck.
The idea is to join up the two tables using only distance, ie, select ...
