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

Jez Nicholson jez.nicholson at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 16:37:42 UTC 2020


Indeed.

I will be plundering the excellent repository from Derry Hamilton for the
Docker setup soon (unless someone beats me to it).

I'd like to make the dataset all of the areas covered by OSMUK...do we
cover British Overseas Territories such as Gibraltar and the Falkland
Islands?

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, 15:32 Brian Prangle, <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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