[OSM-talk] MXD for OSM data?

[Martijn van Exel]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:22 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:

> 
> On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
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>> On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
>> 
>>> El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Martijn van Exel escribió:
>>>> Someone asked me for an ESRI MXD file for OSM data. Does such a thing
>>>> exist?
>>> 
>>> Short answer: no.
> 
> If they need a way to view live OSM data for Haiti (wild guess) in ArcMap (the program that uses MXD's as the project file), then these are your best bets:
> 
> 1) If running ArcMap >= 9.3, they can load into OSM Haiti tiles in ArcMap compatible format from:
> 
> http://geocache.opensgi.net/haiti/arcgis/services
> 
> 2) Most ArcMap versions can consume WMS services and I've set up a Mapnik renderer  (again for Haiti OSM data) to serve WMS  here:
> http://tile2.dbsgeo.com?
> 
> And example request might be: http://tile2.dbsgeo.com/?layers=__all__&bbox=18.497972,-72.479639,18.572645,-72.247381&height=400&width=600&service=WMS&request=GetMap&version=1.3.0&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/png&styles=&crs=EPSG:4326
> 
> Dane
> 

Dane,

I believe that is what they want - it's kinda hard to determine as this query was handed down to me from a colleague. This is most helpful, thanks.

Martijn 


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