Hi all,
I've successfully used the OSM driver[1] to convert from the OSM pbf
binary format into another (in my case Postgres/PostGIS, and testing
with Japan dataset). The time to do this is much much faster than other
tools such as osm2pgsql (once I learned the "PG_USE_COPY YES" parameter
the time went from more than 3 hours down to minutes).
That is the good news. The bad news is that I am stuck now because the
OSM driver does not set z_order (rendering order) values, which are
important for display in MapServer (and Mapnik etc.). Tools like
osm2pgsql and imposm do set those values[2].
Now I realize that I could go through the osm2pgsql/imposm code and set
those myself manually somehow, once I figure out the exact logic used by
those tools, but, I am wondering if this could be added to the OGR/OSM
driver itself, as it is so useful for many mapping projects (?).
Call this a wishlist email then, but I just thought I'd file the request :)
-jeff
[1] http://www.gdal.org/drv_osm.html
[2] https://github.com/omniscale/imposm/blob/master/imposm/mapping.py#L684
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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
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