[OSM-dev] Planet file with preprocessed lines/polygons

[Tim Teulings]

Hello Christoph,

> when it comes to read raw OSM dumps it's quite straightforward to parse
> nodes: their geometry properties can be read alongside with their tags.
> When it comes to linestrings and relations it is more complicated to access
> their geometry: the geometry of referenced nodes needs to be combined into
> lines and polygons. Also one needs to decide which linestrings/relations
> are actually lines and which are areas.

> I know how this can be done but I am wondering if there are preprocessed
> datasets around that have geometries already precomputed. That would make
> sense to me as a lot of people face the sample problem and this step is
> quite resource intense.

> A huge file containing all osm items as geojson would be my dreamcase. Does
> this exist?

libosmscout (http://libosmscout.sf.net) does such preprocessing and  
much more for building its internal database. Purpose of libosmscout  
is offline map rendering, routing and location/POI lookup.

It currently does not export its data as geojson (or vector tiles  
while we are at it). It should be possible though to implement this:  
Either on the fly based on (bounding box based) database queries or as  
an export. libosmscout is already used for implementing a simple,  
local tile server (..and more, see  
https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server) based on the libosmscout  
database.
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Gruß...
    Tim