[OSM-talk] Geoserver support Open street map

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

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

The folks at www.openrouteservice.org are using geoserver as a WMS  
server and IIRC they plan to expose that interface as well (currently  
it is somewhat meshed up with their routing engine). It seems to me  
that their geolocation is only a few kilometres away from the  
original poster (Ugo) so why not meet them for lunch.

There's also working UMN Mapserver installations with OSM data,  
mostly running off ready-made shapefiles (get them from  
download.geofabrik.de) - I assume that like Mapserver, Geoserver can  
either run directly off a small shape, or else you pop the shape into  
a PostGIS and work from there.

I don't think there are many people who access OSM raw data through  
WFS although it would of course be theoretically possible. Any  
conversion OSM-to-WFS would have to be heavily parametrised (which  
OSM elements to export an which OSM tags to use for classification  
etc) and thus difficult to do in a generic way, but I'd love to see  
somebody do it properly ;-)

I can't post this to the geoserver list (not subscribed there) so  
maybe someone can forward.

Bye
Frederik

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