[OSM-talk] Help needed for converting OSM data to some GIS format

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Nov 24, 2007 4:59 PM, Rahkonen Jukka <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi> wrote:
> I am considering to set up a public WFS service (maybe WMS as well) for
> delivering OSM data from Finland. Hardware and software are installed, all
> I miss now are data.
>
> Is there anybody out there who could help me in extracting OSM data
> covering Finland to some common GIS format which I could use as source
> data for Geoserver and UMN Mapserver?  For example separate shapefiles for
> points, linear features and areas would be good for me.  I am not too much
> interested in hacking around myself but I would prefer paying for somebody
> who would like to do the job, or make a donation for OSM or something.
> Ideal solution would be a procedure that could be used later for periodic
> updates.

You do realise that there are already daily dumps for scandiavia on hypercube:
http://hypercube.telascience.org/planet/
http://hypercube.telascience.org/planet/planet-scand-latest.osm.gz

This together with osm2pgsql will get you a handful of tables a DB,
one for points, one for areas and two for linear features (roads and
other).

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/