From 2c05f17e7d4acfce18f7c0cf0fcb769baf791b0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Pitale Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 01:11:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add link to readme to find OSM data As a newbie, I went looking for the OSM data to load. This seems to be canonical place. I could be wrong. I _think_ a link would be helpful. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0fa3a6acc..9081fbb40 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # osm2pgsql # -osm2pgsql is a tool for loading OpenStreetMap data into a PostgreSQL / PostGIS +osm2pgsql is a tool for loading [OpenStreetMap data](http://planet.openstreetmap.org/) into a PostgreSQL / PostGIS database suitable for applications like rendering into a map, geocoding with Nominatim, or general analysis. From b32679df15bcb72ef2840068a2efa982ec072ec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Pitale Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:13:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Moved link into Usage section --- README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9081fbb40..1e74060eb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # osm2pgsql # -osm2pgsql is a tool for loading [OpenStreetMap data](http://planet.openstreetmap.org/) into a PostgreSQL / PostGIS +osm2pgsql is a tool for loading OpenStreetMap data into a PostgreSQL / PostGIS database suitable for applications like rendering into a map, geocoding with Nominatim, or general analysis. @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ where * ```` is about 75% of memory in MiB, to a maximum of about 30000. Additional RAM will not be used. * ```` is a location where a 24GiB file can be saved. +Many different data files (e.g., .pbf) can be found at [planet.osm.org](http://planet.osm.org/). + The databases from either of these commands can be used immediately by [Mapnik](http://mapnik.org/) for rendering maps with standard tools like [renderd/mod_tile](https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile),