[gdal-dev] New OGR driver to read OpenStreetMap .osm / .pbf files

[Frank Broniewski]

Hi,

I had this up my schedule for this week, but I see I need GDAL >= 2.0. 
Where might I get this? From svn (https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal)?

Thanks,

Frank

Am 2012-10-17 11:54, schrieb Even Rouault:
> Selon Frank Broniewski <brfr at metrico.lu>:
>
>> Hi Even,
>>
>> I need to reinstall my OSM database due to the license change to ODBL.
>> Usually I use osm2pgsql for that, but I am willing to sacrifice a little
>> downtime of my DB in order to test the GDAL implementation. Before
>> storming ahead I wanted to know how far you are with the driver
>> implementation - is there anything I need to be aware of?
>
> Apart reading carefully the documentation of the drivers at
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_osm.html and http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pg.html to
> be aware of the various optimization hints, nothing comes to find. There have
> been several optimization passes and improvements done with Jukka's feedback in
> the last few months, so now I consider the gist of the developmement phase to be
> done.
>
>> Are you
>> interested at all in a benchmark comparison between GDAL and osm2pgsql?
>> I'll be using the planet file, so thinks will take a while ...
>
> Yes, sure. Feedback welcome. Note that the driver hasn't specifically been
> developed to compete with osm2pgsql (for example, the OGR OSM driver, or more
> exactly the OGR model, cannot deal with OSM diff files), but more to address the
> capability of reading/converting "modest" sized .osm/.pbf files with little
> "infrastructure".
>
> Even
>
>


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