[OSM-dev] OSM data import using osm2pgsql... what's next.

[Christian Quest]

If you use option -l or --latlong osm2pgsql will keep spherical coordinates.

If you have non spherical geometries in your db, ST_Transform(way,4326)
will bring them back to lat/lon WGS84 coordinates.



2014-08-02 12:52 GMT+02:00 Éric Gillet <fear.hardcore+osm at gmail.com>:

>  On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Christian Quest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> By default osm2pgsql reprojects into web mercator, but you can avoid it
>>> and ask to keep the spherical coordinates if this is a better choice for
>>> your use.
>>>
>>>
> May I ask how to use spherical coordinates ? I've hit the problem about
> distances being distorded with projections, and never managed to do it
> right with osm2pgsql based db.
>
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