[OSM-dev] {To Nick} hello! need expert to hand hold me with DB setup
Keith Sharp
kms at passback.co.uk
Sun Feb 17 09:50:42 GMT 2008
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 13:47 -0500, Fire Girl wrote:
>
>
> Maybe your best bet is to use a PostGIS database and
> osm2pgsql, which takes
> a .osm file and populates a PostGIS database. The only issue
> is postgis can
> be a bit of a pain to set up, but if there are pre-built
> packages for your
> platform it's a *lot* easier. Are you on windows? I'm guessing
> there's a
> prebuilt postgis for windows.
>
>
> Ah Very good! Yes, I am primarily on Windows, however certainly can
> setup something in a Linux environment, though I am going to need
> pretty good instructions. How does this PostGIS DB best run., I mean,
> in terms of a Linux distribution? What do you have? :-)
Try these instructions if you are using Fedora:
http://www.passback.org.uk/maps/fedora.shtml
They are a little out of date now, but should mostly work!
Keith.
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