[OSM-talk] Running my own slippy map

Johnny Doe uucp1 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 23 23:06:53 BST 2006



--- Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
wrote:

> 
> MapServer requires the 
> data to be in a certain format, e.g. shapefiles.
>
If the database will have a separate table
enumerating the possible tag names, then writing
mapinfo MIF/MID planet.mif/mid will be as easy,
or even simplier than planet.osm.
Converting mapinfo to the shapefile is done by

ogr2ogr planet.shp planet.mif

as already documented in the wiki.
Mapserver can use the mapinfo format directly, but it
is
again less efficient than the shapefile.


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