[OSM-talk] Fw: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver support Open street map

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

I forward a message that was sent to Geoserver mailing list. Is somebody here using OSM data for making WMS/WFS services with Geoserver or Mapserver?

-Jukka Rahkonen-


Ugo Taddei wrote:

Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver support Open street map
 
> Hi,

> looks like loads of people have interest in having osm data in their
> geoserver applications... perhaps the osm project could also profit if
> they had support for a WMS.

> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>> I believe that at one point there was interest in someone writing a 
>> geotools driver (datastore) for .osm files directly... but the endeavour 
>> faded out. Not sure why... if the reasons were technical, or just lack 
>> of time/money.

> So, could you give us an estimate of how much effort that would be?

>> 
>> Anyways, this would be a nice thing to have, and we could certainly 
>> direct anyone interested in taking on the task.

> but that would still mean, people having to update their osm snapshots
> regularly (or else run the risk of having outdated data), right?

> I'd be interested to know what you folks out there use osm for: mapping
> (WMS) of raw data (WFS).

> To the last question: does anyone have some code/technique to make the
> osm maps be accessible through WMS?

> Cheers,

> Ugo

> Ugo Taddei

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