How to set up an OpenStreetMap server

Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by madez on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:04AM (#12106212)

I remember having asked once in the osm irc channel on how to setup a private mirror including web service of osm and nobody could answer, telling me that's the first request of that type. It's good to see that there are advances into that direction.

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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by maxerickson on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:24AM (#12106253)

This a tile rendering stack. Similar documentation has been here for years:

https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/building-a-tile-server-...

There certainly isn't much documentation about setting up a private editing API, but there is quite a bit of information published in this repo:

https://git.openstreetmap.org/chef.git/

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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by mynewtb on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:24AM (#12106254)

Huh? https://switch2osm.org is many years old and provides exactly that.

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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by madez on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:25AM (#12106641)

I was not referring to using osm. On the contrary, I wanted to be able to provide a working one-to-one copy of the service available at osm.org including all files, databasis and services.

The reason was to make myself more independent of web services.

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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by maxerickson on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:59AM (#12106743)

The switch2osm guides cover what I would call the interesting side of this, primarily the tile server and geocoder. A lot of the other stuff actually depends on external services (the navigation, some of the queries).

If you aren't the nexus of worldwide OpenStreetMap editing (which parts of osm.org are that), there isn't so much reason to run a whole bunch of the stuff. You don't need to support thousands of people making edits, if you aren't capturing edits you don't need a system to replicate them out to data consumers. Etc, etc.

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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by chippy on Saturday July 16, 2016 @06:37PM (#12108141)

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ a rails app basically and a way to import the planet back into the database (not sure how to do this but I think its possible).

You wont have any of the history, and no users info etc, but you can edit and if you have tile server set up can serve tiles from it as well.

Far better though is to import the data into PostGIS (the rendering database) and edit and add that way with a desktop gis.

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