[Qgis-developer] Easy postgres setup and OSM pre-processing for QGIS

[Mayeul Kauffmann]

Hi,
To help  the use of OSM data in QGIS:
I created a bash script to automate the installation and configuration
of postgresql, to create a database (with postgis and hstore), to
download and run osmosis, load the data into postgres and process them
for displaying them on QGIS. The first steps are optional.
The script is available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osm2postgresql/

The idea came from kimaidou's comment below.
It's not yet for linux beginners. It still needs some improvement but
with it I can do all the above in one command line. Ultimately I would
like to incorporate it somehow into QGIS to have a new OSM viewer. (I
discussed this with spatialite's developer but some postgres functions
are missing in sqlite.)

Mayeul

Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 09:17 +0100, kimaidou a écrit :
> Hi Mayeul and devs,
> 
> Mayeul, I had a look at your wiki page which describes how to get and
> use OSM data. I think you should speak a bit more about pre-processed
> shapefiles, as it is much easier for people with no server/time/skills
> to open a shapefile in Qgis than setting up a complete OSM
> postgresql/postgis database.