wiki:RenderingOsmDataUbuntu

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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:

Create work directory

  • All the steps that follow assume that the data and mapfiles will be installed in a directory called "osm-demo" in your home directory
  • Commands: 
      mkdir ~/osm-demo
  cd ~/osm-demo/

Install UbuntuGIS MapServer and PostGIS packages

  • Relevant docs: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/UbuntuGISRepository
  • At the time of this writing, the current version of MapServer is 6.0.1
  • 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
  • Install other non-GIS packages that will be required later on: 
      sudo apt-get install mercurial subversion
  sudo apt-get install zip unzip

Download OSM data

  • You can download data for your region of interest from ​http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/. The rest of these instructions assume that we work with the data for the state of Alabama.
  • Commands: 
      cd ~/osm-demo/
  wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/alabama.osm.pbf

Install imposm, using virtualenv

  • Relevant docs: ​http://imposm.org/docs/imposm/latest/install.html
  • Commands: 
      cd ~/osm-demo/
  sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev protobuf-compiler \
                      libprotobuf-dev libtokyocabinet-dev python-psycopg2 \
                      libgeos-c1

  sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
  virtualenv venv
  • Install shapely speedups: 
      sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
  venv/bin/pip install https://github.com/olt/shapely_speedups/tarball/master
  • IMPORTANT: We will use a custom branch of imposm created by tbonfort that creates additional generalized tables for use with mapserver-utils: 
      hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tbonfort/imposm-tbonfort
  vi imposm-tbonfort/imposm/defaultmapping.py
... change proj to epsg:900913 (it is set to epsg:4326 bu default)
  • If we wanted to use the release version of imposm instead then we'd have run the following command, BUT WE DO NOT WANT THAT... this command included here only for reference: 
      # Do not run this command unless you plan to use the release version of imposm
  #venv/bin/pip install imposm
  • TODO: Verify if released version of imposm includes all required tables and views, and when it does update these instructions to avoid using the custom branch.

Create database

  • Relevant docs: ​http://imposm.org/docs/imposm/latest/tutorial.html
  • Commands: 
      ~/osm-demo/venv/bin/python imposm-tbonfort/imposm/psqldb.py > create-db.sh
  vi ./create-db.sh # cross check if all path are set
... edit the following lines:
-------------------8<--------------
psql -d osm -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql             # <- CHANGE THIS PATH
psql -d osm -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql     # <- CHANGE THIS PATH
------------------->8--------------

  sudo su postgres
  sh ./create-db.sh
  /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart
  exit
  • Note: If we were using the released version of imposm then the first command would have been: 
      venv/bin/imposm-psqldb > create-db.sh

Load data using imposm

  • Relevant docs: ​http://imposm.org/docs/imposm/latest/tutorial.html
  • Commands: 
      cd ~/osm-demo/
  ~/osm-demo/venv/bin/python imposm-tbonfort/imposm/app.py --read alabama.osm.pbf
  ~/osm-demo/venv/bin/python imposm-tbonfort/imposm/app.py  --write --database osm --host localhost --user osm
  ~/osm-demo/venv/bin/python imposm-tbonfort/imposm/app.py  --optimize -d osm
  • Note: multiple .osm.pbf files can be loaded in separate commands using the --merge-cache argument.

Install mapserver-utils mapfile generator

  • Website: ​http://code.google.com/p/mapserver-utils/
  • Check out the 'imposm-branch' from SVN: 
      cd ~/osm-demo/
  svn checkout http://mapserver-utils.googlecode.com/svn/branches/imposm-branch/ mapserver-utils-svn-imposm
  cd mapserver-utils-svn-imposm
  • Update mapserver-utils's osmbase.map and Makefile as follows: 
      vi osm-base.map
-------------------8<------------------------
  WEB
...
    IMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/"
    IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
 END
...
-------------------->8-----------------------

  vi Makefile
-------------------8<------------------------
OSM_SRID=900913
OSM_UNITS=meters
OSM_EXTENT=-20000000 -20000000 20000000 20000000
...
STYLE=google
-------------------->8-----------------------
  • Create MapServer temp dirs (required by mapserv CGI for testing with openlayers template) 
      mkdir /tmp/ms_tmp
  chmod 777 /tmp/ms_tmp
  • Execute the mapserver-utils makefile to generate the mapfile. Note that the first time you run 'make' several large files will be downloaded (country boundaries, etc.). This will happen only the first time. 
      cd ~/osm-demo/mapserver-utils-svn-imposm
  make
  • The 'make' command will have generated a osm-google.map based on the parameters in the generate_style.py script.
  • More information about tweaking the map styles is available at ​http://code.google.com/p/mapserver-utils/wiki/TweakingMapStylesImposm
  • Access your map online using MapServer's built-in template=openlayers mode: 
    http://yourserver.tld/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/path/to/osm-demo/mapserver-utils-svn-imposm/osm-google.map&mode=browse&template=openlayers&layers=all

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