[Qgis-psc] Fw: qgis web migration to osgeo

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I think another option is to download the OSM dataset to our own
servers and import it to postgis - I think they make weekly complete
and country by country dumps in postgis sql dump format.

Regards

Tim

2008/6/2 Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I was on the "LinuxTag" Conference in Berlin the last days (also hold a 1h talk
> about QGIS :-)). I had a chance to talk to german OSM project members (Frederik
> Ramm and Jochen Topf). They don't intend to provide WMS services for free,
> because it would cause too much traffic on their servers, as they said, so they
> will offer WMS access for money via their company geofabrik.de.
>
> Not interesting for us, I think, although it would be the easiest way to
> include the data. Anyway, I talked to other people as well and I am sure we
> find a solution for a nice usermap with OSM data, without paying for direct WMS
> access at the OSM project.
>
> regards,
>  Otto
>
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:19:53 +0200
> Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>
>> Otto Dassau ha scritto:
>>
>> > good idea. Does OSM provide their data as WMS or WFS?
>>
>> Several ways to go:
>> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/turning-openstreetmap-into-a-wfs/
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository
>>
>> http://www.paolocorti.net/public/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/03/a-day-with-fea
>> tureserver-2/
>> I think OSMers will have other suggestions too.
>> All the best.
>> pc
>



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