[OSM-talk] Navit format downloads

[Nick Black]

Patrick - could you send over a shapefile so I can take a look at the
kind of richness you are talking aobut?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Patrick Weber <p.weber at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Nick
>
> At the moment I feel that the shapefile export files you produce are way too
> limited to be of much use in GIS processing. The problem is that you are
> very restrictive in terms of the attributes you attach to the geometry, and
> vice versa the amount of geometry you exclude based on not supported
> attributes.
> I know that if you  were to include all geometry and more importantly all
> attributes, than the shapefiles would become much bigger and lots of GIS
> systems would struggle to cope with the huge tables.
>
> I propose as I have done for my OSM to Manifold GIS importer, to create one
> shapefile for points, lines, polygons, include in those shapefiles crucially
> OSM ID as well as the most commonl y used tags (highway, amenity, name,
> landuse .... ).
> But then create a CSV file that will hold triplets of OSM ID, key, value to
> hold *all* of the remaining attribute data. That way, any information that a
> user might be interested in can easily be linked back to the geometry using
> the OSM ID.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Cheers
> Patrick
>
> Nick Black wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Over at downloads.cloudmade.com, we've just added Navit format files
>> for most countries of the world derived from OSM data.  The Navit
>> files will be updated each week, shortly after planet is released.  We
>> had a quick look at Navit on Frday afternoon - the files load and
>> allow routing, but there are a few rough edges, like flight paths in
>> Germany.
>>
>> Navit's been around for a while now and it seems like a cool project.
>> Are many people in OSM using it regularly?  If so, what platforms are
>> you using it on?  It would be awesome to get it running on Open Tom -
>> its Linux / GTK based, so this should be feasible.
>>
>> You can grab the Europe Navit file from :
>>
>> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe
>>
>> The format was requested by Wolfgang Silbermayr from the Navit
>> project.  I'd love to host more formats, so please shout out if
>> there's something else that would be useful.
>>
>>
>>
>



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