[OSM-dev] {To Nick} hello! need expert to hand hold me with DB setup

[Keith Sharp]

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They are a little out of date now, but should mostly work!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.