[talk-au] Extracting Map data for Australian cities

Kamran Shafi kamran.shafi at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 02:53:40 BST 2009


I think the problem is windows paths are not handled properly in osmosis,
especially the white spaces in directory names.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Kamran Shafi <kamran.shafi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi John,
> Thanks for asking again. This is weird but I have got osmosis working from
> my C drive, it still does not work from my work folder though.
>
> The routing is a plugin to another application which might have commercial
> implications in future and thus the licencing issues. Besides application is
> being developed in .Net and I am trying to avoid overheads in porting Java
> based solutions such as OSMNavigation. Any suggestions on what could be my
> best bet?
>
> Also, any idea on how decoding of addresses to coordinates is done at the
> moment with OSM maps? I noticed there are lots of unknowns and missing
> information in the way nodes.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:11 AM, John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 30/7/09, Kamran Shafi <kamran.shafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for a quick response. Actually I am trying to
>> > build an offline routing application for which I need only
>> > one city's map data only. Unfortunately, Osmosis has
>> > refused to recognise any commandline options. Unless there
>> > is any other tool I am thinking of writing my own to
>> > extract this data from Australia.osm. Do I have better
>> > options?
>>
>> Any particular reason you are looking to build yet another routing
>> solution?
>>
>> As for osmosis, there needs to be some environmental variables put in
>> place, are you calling it via the batch file? In my case shell script, but
>> same thing...
>>
>> ./bin/osmosis --read-xml file='australia-oceania.osm.bz2' --bounding-box
>> left=110 right=155 top=-10 bottom=-45 --apply-change --write-xml
>> file='australia.osm.bz2'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Kamran
>



-- 
Regards
Kamran
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