I have got Asset tracking installations for many clients. The availability of GIS map data for every client location seems to be the tough part. I have got a MapServer WMS installation.
Can I use OSM data behind mapserver? Also I need to timely update with latest OSM data.
Is there any mapfile (MapServer map style configuration file) for OSM data?
And is PostgreSQL/PostGIS also a better option to include?
Update: I followed exactly the instructions on http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu as advised by mapper. Everything worked fine. Got the osm-gooogle.map.
But, when I browsed http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/osm-demo/mapserver-utils-svn/osm-google.map&mode=browse&template=openlayers&layers=all
There was few things to change in the generated mapfile. Mainly, the IMAGEPATH & IMAGEURL were inside METADATA tag. Moved them outside to WEB tag and everything worked fine. It started drawing Google styled map from OSM data stored in local PostGres DB.