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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What is the bare minimum data I would need to import from an OSM data file in order to geocode an address?
I'm using osm2pgsql to import an extract of OpenStreetMap's data so I can geocode an address to a lat/lng. But I'm new to OSM and mapping so I'm having trouble figuring out what data is relevant and ...
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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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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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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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Why the modifications I do in QGIS doesn't appear when I save an OSM file I created?
Through QGIS I loaded an OSM file I created and I'm trying to visualize what happens with the file in terms of codes after some modifications like adding points, lines or polygons. But the problem is ...
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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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Where can I download OpenStreetMap data by geographic region?
I want to use OpenStreetMap data for an ArcEngine application I'm working on, and I need the data to be stored locally. I don't want to download the entire planet.osm file, but rather by state, ...
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qgis osx : Openstreetmap Plugin and tags
I'm using QGIS and The Openstreetmap Plugin to manage osm files.
That plugin is very useful, but limited to a few tags that will be converted into dbf file.
I'm looking for a method allowing to add ...
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Vector Building Footprint Resources - Tokyo
I typically know where to look for this data in the United States, but I'm at a loss when looking for building footprint shapefiles abroad. I thought I could find what I was looking for with Open ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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OpenStreetMap or Google Map Maker: where should I donate and volunteer my geographical knowledge?
I definitely know a lot about the places I visit and want to share it with everyone. I want to know if donating and volunteering at OpenStreetMap—which is where I have been helping—is a waste of time: ...
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Change zIndex of Vectors in openlayers
I have a bunch of linestring features on a vector layer. Some of them overlap. If I trigger the hover event on those features, I want them be in front.
I did find some functions to set the z-index of ...
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A strange OSM tiles in Mapproxy
Could someone please help me with my issue? I try to use Mapproxy with OpenStreetMap server of tiles in order to get output WMS for my qgis client. Something like this:
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sources:
arcgis_tms:
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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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How to Optimize Openstreetmap Tile Rendering?
I am currently trying to render Water (3,198,333 records) and detailed world borders (processed_p) for the world. I am successful in rendering both layers, but I am not happy with performance.
My ...
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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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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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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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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 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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Standard SLDs for OpenStreetMaps?
We have downloaded OSM data for our region and loaded them into PostGIS using osm2pgsql. So far so good. On top we have GeoServer and we would like to expose the OSM data using WMS. We would as well ...
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looking for open source Java SE map viewer library that work with osm files or osm pre-downloaded tiles
I am new here and I hope I can find answers to my question here! I am developing a mapping platform for desktop, web, mobile (Android). I finally finished embedding mapping into my android software ...
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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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Not rendered pois on OpenStreetMap
There are a few poi that I can see on Josm that are not rendered to the final map. OSM database contains them at least for some month. I can' figure out why the doesn't appear on the map.
Example poi ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Creating osm2pgsql tables in PostGIS database
I managed to partially setup osm2psql to work with my PostGIS DB.
My DB contains now the following tables:
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+-------------------+-------+-------
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Howto setup osm2psql
I'm following these instructions to setup osm2psql . I need it to import osm data file inside a PostGIS DB.
The following steps worked fine:
createdb -E UTF8 -O user mydb
createlang plpgsql mydb
I ...
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How to find out what features /tags are included in an .osm or .pbf file?
I would like to load osm data into a postgis (postgresql) database. In
How to load OSM data into PostGIS preserving all Tags? there has beeen a solution posted:
Download the OSM files (in .osm ...
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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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How can I display OpenStreetMap using GeoTools? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best API to use GeoTools or uDig (for the context of my application)?
I would like to display OpenStreetMap in a java desktop application using GeoTools. I ...
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How to label a selection of an OSM layer depending on certain tags?
I just imported original OSM data to export a pdf-map by assigning graphic attributes to the features I need.
The label tool in QGIS 1.8 allows to select certain features, like I can do with the ...
