Hi Alex, Thanks for the link. This looks really interesting.
It seems I can use FastArea with a geometry bound with tag queries to search what I'm looking for. I'll try it and ping back in case I have any questions queries while using it. Best, Pulkit On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Aleś Bułojčyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ! > > If you need just read small region, you can try to use my library for > that: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=27038 > It works with local files only. No need to setup PostgreSQL/PostGIS. > > WBR, Alex. > > > On 10 November 2014 02:46, Pulkit Bhuwalka <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> My goal is to create my own local database of OSM data and use it for >> fast querying (no writes) - so that I can ask things like "give me all the >> roads within a small bounding box" etc. >> >> I got a sense from the component overview >> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Component_overview> that data should >> be imported into a PostGIS data for quick querying. So as of now, I have >> managed to >> >> 1. Download bulk data from OSM using API (This is a small region) >> 2. Setup Postgres with PostGIS extension. >> 3. Import data into PostGIS database using osm2pgsql >> >> I am not sure about the next step. What api should I use to query the >> database? I suppose there exists some data access API which Mapnik and >> other services use for drawing. >> >> Also, I don't quite understand the DB structure and the data encoding >> within it. There are a few tables created by PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys etc.) >> and a few tables created by OSM (planet_osm_*). I am unsure about the >> relation between these tables. >> >> I recently also stumbled upon the Overpass API >> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API> which seems to do >> something similar. My requirements are actually pretty simple. I need some >> simple querying to experiment with some rendering of my own. >> >> Any help is really appreciated. Thanks a lot for your help and OSM! >> >> Best, >> Pulkit >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >> > -- Pulkit
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