Rendering OSM data with MapServer on Ubuntu 10.10

This page provides step by step instructions to setup a Ubuntu 10.10 LTS server from scratch to render OSM data with MapServer 6.x.

The following instructions assume that we start with a brand new Ubuntu 10.10 server with Apache installed but none of the MapServer related packages installed.

The setup will include:

• MapServer 6.x (from the UbuntuGIS repository)
• PostgreSQL/PostGIS (from the UbuntuGIS repository)
• OSM data to be downloaded from ​http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
• Use of "imposm" to load the data in PostGIS: ​http://imposm.org/
• MapFile generated using "mapserver-utils": ​http://code.google.com/p/mapserver-utils/
• Tile caching using Mod-Geocache (to be renamed MapCache): ​http://mod-geocache.googlecode.com/

Install UbuntuGIS MapServer and PostGIS

• Relevant docs: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/UbuntuGISRepository
• Commands:

    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install cgi-mapserver mapserver-bin
  
    sudo apt-get install postgresql
    sudo apt-get install postgis postgresql-8.4-postgis