[postgis-users] OpenStreetMap to GPS

[Emilie Laffray]

Matthew Pulis wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I want to plot a list of GPS acquired locations with data originating
> from OpenStreetMap. I am thinking to keep everything in GPS projection
> since quite near in the future the project is going to be accepting
> live GPS readings.
>
> OSM SRID = 900913
>
> Should I consider GPS SRID to be: 4326?
It looks like you used osm2pgsql in its default mode. If you want to
have data in 4326 with osm2pgsql, you have to use the flag -l.
The default SRID for OSM is 4326. It is only osm2pgsql that is
transforming this into 900913 for the rendering.

Emilie Laffray

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