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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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How to make routable OSM map

I have some routable data for testing my pgRouting functions, and everything is fine. Now I have to download some more countries from OSM. I downloaded Germany shape files, but OSM maps are not ...
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Is there an opensource software to route openstreetMap data based on database?

I have a project that consists in aggregate traffic information on OpenStreetMap for routing proposes. My first idea is to use the OSM data from the region on a database, so I can aggregate the ...
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Improve database performance for geospatial

I have a database with osm data imported with osmosis tool. I want to search for the nearest POIs from a given point. For this purpose, I perform this query: select id from nodes where ...
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OSM Country import - missing border-near lakes, rivers

I'm importing a country (e.g Switzerland) from the cloudmade OSM branch and I'm failing to get the bordercrossing lakes on display. The same issue came up, when I tried to import the geofabrik .dpf ...
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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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OpenStreetMap Neighborhood Boundaries

Is it possible to download neighborhood boundaries from OpenStreetMap? I see on maps that they often indicate neighborhood names; is there a way to retrieve their coordinates and boundary polygon ...
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OSM To Postgis & WGS84 problems

I’m trying to import OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into postGIS it doesn’t appear to be working in that features do not appear to be in the correct place.. Using the QGIS OSM add in and a coastal shape ...
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How do you convert OSM XML to geojson?

I want to take the XML output of a Xapi query and display it using leaflet or polymaps. How can I do that? Is there an easy way to convert XML to geojson
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Render the PostGIS OSM data in 3d?

I wonder is there any open-source application that can query a PostGIS-enabled database and render the resulting OSM map in 3d. The only thing I have found so far is Navit, but it renders only from ...
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Open street map accuracy problem

I want to locate shops with open street map. For that I send a query to nominatim, a webservice which geocodes coordinates from addresses. I draw a marker at the returned coordinates, and it´s ...
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Google Map API 3 with OSM overlay

I'm using GeoXml3 to parse XML files in Google Map and would like to add OSM as custom maptype. I fiddled with this example but it hides completely the original Google layers. I've found a couple of ...
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Trip travel matrix on OSM data

Here's my situation: I'm modeling travel logistics I have 1,000 nodes, on my road network I'd like to generate the minimum driving time distance between all these nodes This process will be done 24 ...
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Load .osm.pbf file in Qgis

How can i do that ? On Linux or Windows ? The more simplest variant, if it exists. .osm.pbf it`s the extension for Openstreetmap extract that i get from a site that takes dayly extracts from osm
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How to create accurate indoor maps?

I'm currently developing an indoor positioning system for a college project , I searched for good mapping platform and I found that openstreetmaps would suit me best , but now I'm stuck in generating ...
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Cleaning up OpenStreetMap data, building polygons and trying to improve appearance

I'm currently going through my first project with OpenStreetMap data and I'm struggling to see how certain features can be made to look anywhere near as good as in OpenStreetMap.org. I downloaded a ...
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How to “calculate” distance-to-ground of all 18 OSM zoom levels?

Assuming I'm building a 3D solution with the "world" being mapped to global geo-data supplied by OSM / Cloudmade... think http://www.webglearth.com but with completely different goals and use-cases. ...
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Using planet.bz2 with ArcGIS Editor for OSM, sync'ing changes

Overview: We are attempting to clean up and revise the OSM data of our County by comparing it to a more accurate (public domain licensed) street layer within the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap. ...
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Assessing OpenStreetMap coverage for international routing

I posted the following question on the main StackOverflow website, but was informed that I might get a better response here. Hence I'm copying it below. Note however, that I have an active bounty on ...
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Differences between OSM data and MapQuest OSM data?

I currently have an OSM "stack" server (Postgres/PostGIS, Mapnik, OpensLayers) working in a development environment, with almost all the South America countries loaded on the database. Since the ...
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Why is osm2pgrouting not importing?

I installed pgrouting successfully and did a little import with a 20Mb file. Works good! Now I'm trying to import a file with the size of a country and it doesn't even start to import. The last 2 ...
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Reverse Geocoding Libraries

I'm new to GIS and mapping services. Can anyone tell me what my options are for reverse-geocoding libraries, other than nominatim? I'm most likely going to be working with OpenStreetMap data. So ...
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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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USGS Topographic Map Online API

I am creating a website for a non-profit organization and would like to plot points on a map similar to this: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=931d892ac7a843d7ba29d085e0433465 I am currently ...
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estimate travelling time for the route using pgRouting and OSM data

Could someone share with me some ideas or your experience how to estimate travelling time based on the provided route within pgRouting? The problem is that roads inside and outside cities have the ...
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Different ways to publish media-enhanced route/trail information to mobile users

I'm looking for some different approaches that a non-profit I'm helping could use to publish information about some tourism routes. Each route is 1-2 tracks, with some historical background ...
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Help importing osm data into spatialite

I am trying to import OSM data into Spatialite. The data is a query from overpass called features.osm I'm using spatialite 3.0, and following examples, I have created a new database with: $ ...
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How to display OSM relations in Openlayers with tags as legend?

I would like to show this type of relations in a simple map with Openlayers. http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/1637735/full I'm specially interested in being able to show tags as legend. ...
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generate 1-18 simple worldmap with mapnik

I have postgresql with postgis and mapnik, I need to generate a tiled world map with only country contours and country name that are displayed at all zoom levels, no extra info. How can I do it ...
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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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Openlayers display a markers popup using a button out of the map

I have the following code which addes 3 markers to the map along with there popup boxes what I want to do is have a list of location at bottom of page and using the id of the marker when click a place ...
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Retrieve speed and number of Lanes in Google Maps API, OSM data or any other stream?

Is it possible to return the posted speed and number of lanes of a highway segment using Google Maps API, OSM data, or any other stream (paid for or free)?
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How do I determine the center point of several features in OpenLayers?

I have several polygons being drawn on a map, usually representing a country or province or state. Depending on some chosen data, different regions may be selected, so what I was hoping is that ...
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Shape file for North America

list! Could you please help me. I need the coastline shape file of North America, something like this http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata I used it for geoserver+postgis with osm sld-tyles like the ...
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How do I apply Dijkstra's algorithm in Python with PostGIS data?

I have currently parsed OSM data, from a PBF file, into a pgRouting database with the use of osm2po, an excellent parsing tool. I don't however want to use the algorithms provided by pgRouting and ...
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How to serve OSM Tiles on Windows?

Was hoping I could just extract tiles into a local file system, point IIS at it and be done but I guess that is not the reality of Open Street Map. I'm getting buried in all the possible ways of ...
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Generating very simple slippy map tiles

I have an app that uses slippy maps. The tiles I'm currently using contain a lot of information that is superfluous to my users. I've been investigating generating replacement map tiles that contain ...
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What is the highest possible value of OSM_ID?

What is currently the highest value of OSM_ID in openstreetmapping? What is the highest possible value of OSM_ID? 2^31 (2.147.483.648)? And here I add some more text or my question is rejected ...
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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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How to draw line by scratching on map using OpenLayers?

Is it possible to draw line by scratching on the map using OpenLayers? I tried some examples, all the examples are drawing by clicking. I want to draw by scratching, just like drawing in normal life ...
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Use QGIS to visualize OpenStreetMap data

I have a osm map for a certain region. Also using osm2po I extracted the graph which includes edges and nodes into the database. Now I want to visualize the map and then visualize the shortest path. ...
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Multiple queries in a row

I have osm data imported into PostgreSQL with osm2po tool (wich makes the data routable). Also I have imported data relationed with nodes and node_tags with osmosis tool. I need to obtain a set of ...
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How do you create Revision Table in Arcmap for OSM contribution?

I have created the following detailed file for upload to OSM in ArcMap but don't know about creating a OSM Revision Table to be able to put the data into OSM. At 1:10,000 At 1:1000 The tool ...
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Markers on openlayers openstreetmap

I am trying to show some markers from a database in openlayers. I tried it in google maps in past using GDownloadURL fuction to read a json php generated file from my database. Now I tried the same ...
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How much information does QGIS's OpenStreetmap Plugin download?

I am using the OpenStreetmap Plugin for QGIS to download the information for my university extent. The information as I see is downloaded in vector format divided into Points, polygons and lines... ...
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Can you use OpenStreetMap tiles in ArcGIS 9.3.1?

I was hoping to use ESRI's ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap to view OpenStreetMap data in ArcMap, but my organization hasn't upgraded to version 10 yet. I also know about ArcBruTile, but I prefer not ...
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How to get started with pgRouting and OSM?

I have followed these instructions to install postgresql and pgrouting on our ubuntu server: ...
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Display two layers with OpenLayers at once

How can i display two layers with diferent projections at once? For example i have layer with EPSG:70076 and OSM layer.
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Qgis OpenStreetMap plugin misbehaviour

I used the plugin successfully. But yesterday, after changing several buildings in JOSM. Import under qgis with the plugin does not work anymore. The buildings are in the layer point! Do you have any ...
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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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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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