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In GDAL >= 1.10, ogr2ogr contains osm driver

I want to try this feature and migrate OSM to PostGIS (I'm aware of osm2pqsql existence)

I have several relatively small OSM files and wonder if ogr2ogr driver will merge all features correctly or do I have to use other tool for merging (osmosis) before migrating to PostGIS?

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  • You might encounter problems if items are included in both datasets. I have not tested it, but it might be that ogr2ogr refuses to proceed if an object is already in the Postgis database.
    – AndreJ
    Jun 19, 2014 at 16:54

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Depends on how "correctly" is defined. Ogr2ogr creates by default an attribute "ogc_fid" to the target dataset and that is used as primary key. Therefore if separate OSM datasets contain the same OSM features with same osm_id they can be appended into the same PostGIS tables. Osm2pgsql will fail in this situation because it creates tables which use osm_id as primary key. However, ogr2ogr does not merge the duplicate features but after conversion they will appear many times in PostGIS tables. Because osm_id is saved also as a normal attribute it is possible to find duplicate features with SQL and keep only one and delete the rest. Therefore my answer is "Yes".

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  • osm2pgsql (as least the version I tried on Windows) does not create primary key, and I guess other OS versions does not too, as osm_id is not unique.
    – zetah
    Jun 19, 2014 at 22:04
  • My version does but it may have changed:NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "planet_osm_ways_pkey" for table "planet_osm_ways" Osm_ids are unique per type node/way/relation though not universally.
    – user30184
    Jun 20, 2014 at 9:44

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