[OSM-newbies] converting osm formats

[Denver Gingerich]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Adrian <osmmail at ajw.me.uk> wrote:
>> Thank you for some of the limited responses I received, but still
>> conversion tools for windows seem to be lacking for OSM?  Am I
>> incorrect in this?
>
> Most of the tools you need are available in Windows ports. ogr2ogr is
> available on Windows at http://fwtools.maptools.org/ and so is Postgis
> http://postgis.refractions.net/download/
>
> The only problem is with osm2pgsql.

If you need osm2pgsql, try compiling it with MSYS and MinGW [1].  You
will have to download and compile the libraries it depends on as well
(libxml2, geos, proj, bzip2, zlib, etc.).  It might take some time,
but that's the consequence of using Windows.  Microsoft doesn't make
it easy for you unless you buy their build tools.  Might I ask why you
need these conversion tools to work on Windows?

Denver


1. http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS