Hi, I forward a message that was sent to Geoserver mailing list. Is somebody here using OSM data for making WMS/WFS services with Geoserver or Mapserver?
-Jukka Rahkonen- Ugo Taddei wrote: Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver support Open street map > Hi, > looks like loads of people have interest in having osm data in their > geoserver applications... perhaps the osm project could also profit if > they had support for a WMS. > Justin Deoliveira wrote: >> I believe that at one point there was interest in someone writing a >> geotools driver (datastore) for .osm files directly... but the endeavour >> faded out. Not sure why... if the reasons were technical, or just lack >> of time/money. > So, could you give us an estimate of how much effort that would be? >> >> Anyways, this would be a nice thing to have, and we could certainly >> direct anyone interested in taking on the task. > but that would still mean, people having to update their osm snapshots > regularly (or else run the risk of having outdated data), right? > I'd be interested to know what you folks out there use osm for: mapping > (WMS) of raw data (WFS). > To the last question: does anyone have some code/technique to make the > osm maps be accessible through WMS? > Cheers, > Ugo > Ugo Taddei > Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (FhG IAIS) > http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de > Department Knowledge Discovery - IAIS.KD - > Working Group Spatial Decision Support > http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/kd.html > phone (+49)2241-14-2184 fax (+49)2241-14-2072 > Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
