[Talk-GB] "OSMUK-in-a-box"

Brian Prangle bprangle at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 15:32:30 UTC 2020


Looks like you've got yourself a show and tell session at the OSMUK AGM
Jez!

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 12:31, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I come from a database background, and when a question isn't easily
> answered with Taginfo or Overpass Turbo I jump to my trusty local postgres
> database of UK data. I have a script that downloads the British Isles from
> Geofabrik, loads it with osm2pgsql, adds some useful indexes, and then
> removes Eire. Thereafter I can run SQL queries across the whole database to
> get 'UK-wide' results.
>
> I think that this would be useful for people on hackdays and the like and
> would be a good service for OSMUK to provide, so have just added a new
> github repository https://github.com/osm-uk/osmuk2pgsql
>
> Friendly-worded Issues are welcome, as are code contributions. I'd like to
> put it on a Docker environment so that it works quickly-and-easily on
> Windows, Linux, Mac, whatever.
>
> Comments? Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>              Jez
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