Tom Hughes <tom <at> compton.nu> writes: > Erik Johansson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Jukka Rahkonen > > <jukka.rahkonen <at> mmmtike.fi> wrote: > > > >> I would like to find somebody who believes he/she could make a new version of > >> osm2pgsql Windows binaries. > >> - user should be able to select the tags to be imported > > > > There is a file called default.style in the current version of > > osm2pgsql that allows you to do that. The other two I'm not sure > > about, API 0.6 should only add "uid=## changeset=###" to all > > objects.and osm2pgsql should handle that. > > Jukka's message was a bit confused - he knows (judging by the trac > ticket he filed) that the current svn code supports the features he > asked about. What he really wants is just somebody to compile the > current code for windows.
Hi, That's right, I have read the notes from svn and judged by that tags can be selected now, as well as the current code should handle PostGIS connection parameters. Last time it was not exectly the svn code that was used for compiling. The list of tags to be imported was prolonged by shop, is_in, historic, int_ref, postal_code, telephone, address and URL. In addition I remember somehow that some changes had to be done to the code before it started to work on Windows. I do not know exactly because I just received the executable, tested and accepted it but the work that was done there behind remained undocumented as far as I know. That's one reason why I think that perhaps OpenStreetMap trac could contain also current osm2pgsql Windows binaries or at least instructions about how to make them. PostGIS and osm2pgsql.exe are fine combination even for basic Windows users who are willing to start using OSM data with all the details in a simple way. Just a few steps are needed: - Install PostgreSQL and PostGIS extension with installer - Donload countywise OSM data from Geofabrik.de - Acquire osm2pgsql.exe and run it - Perhaps install missing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime components and run osm2pgsql.exe again - Learn that you must create PostgreSQL user having the same name than the logged-in Windows user, switch off the password checking run osm2pgsql.exe for the third time. Only discomfort at the moment is that PostGIS connection is always using the default parameters and no passwork can be set. Despite that everything goes very fast and reliably and I have been very satisfied with the utility. Until last week when I learned to create large georeferenced Mapnik maps in UTM projection with a nice Nik2img.py utility. I started to play by combining this Mapnik raster map, other raster maps from various WMS servers and local imagery as background layers with vector overlays coming from my WFS server. This is rather a nice and fast way to visualise what ever features there exists in the database without a need to make the whole load of rendering rules needed for making a nice map. And because overlays are vectors I can have all the attribute data available as well. I can already visualise cycleways, footways, streets without a name, buildings according to their tags etc, but I cannot colour highways according to max_speed tags or pharmacies according to opening hours, or cycleways according to the surface tag before I can load a bit more tags into PostGIS. I would like to make clear that I do not demand any special services for the Windows users. I understand that this project is running on Linux and that osm2pgsql is done for Mapnik rendering and it is not meant to be used as a general OSM data conversion tool. For that purpose having an ogr2ogr driver would be a better solution. Osm2pgsql.exe is just damn fast in importing OSM data into PostGIS in Windows environment and therefore I am, if not so very willing, but anyway ready to pay for the kind developer who would add those two missing features. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
