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

[Rahkonen Jukka]

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Lähettäjä: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog at gmail.com]
>> 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).

Great, that's more than I was dreaming about. I will then perhaps make 
a WFS service for the whole Scandinavia.

-Jukka Rahkonen-