OSM Plug-in for Gazebo/Stage

Author:         Tashwin Khurana
Maintainer:     Krystian Gebis
Version:        1.9
Description:    Open Street Maps plugin for Gazebo and Stage Simulators
                This folder contains files for building osm_plugin for both simulators.

Dependencies:

Python 2.7
OpenCV
Mapnik:
	https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/UbuntuInstallation
Osmapi:
	sudo pip install osmapi

Files:

osm2dict.py

Collects data about certain types of roads based on input coordinates from osm database and converts the information received to format that can be used to build sdf files.

dict2sdf.py

Used to build sdf file from data received about the elements in the sdf format.

• functionality:
• add models to world,
• add road element,
• set road width,
• add points to the road element

getMapImage.py

Gets the image of the area required to be simulated.

getOsmFile.py

Downloads the osm database of the specified area.