So, we first download the area Germany from GeoFabrik. I create the section using the Osmium tool. We can generate a rectangular section from a larger region, for example Germany. So we want to export a country, for example Rhineland-Palatinate. Geofabrik exports are extracted around the borders of the region, and the areas around them appear as gray areas when we display the map on a rectangular area. So we also want to include some parts around the border. Note though that when we want to export a region, we actually want a rectangular export. It is possible to get pre-made exports from here: GeoFabrik. A handy tool to determine the bounding box coordinates is boundingbox or calc.įirst, we need to create an export of the region we want to host. Creating a regional openstreetmap data export I am currently working under Ubuntu 20.04. In this post, I show how I created a map using data from OpenStreetmap and Tilemaker for the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on my local machine. Hosting the whole planet requires significant amounts of storage. But mostly it is not necessary to include the whole world in the map. The only problem in my eyes is the amount of data.
Freely available data from OpenStreetmap and open source tools help to create individual vector graphic maps for a website/web application. It is not that complicated to create maps yourself and host them on your own web space. However, for many applications this is not necessary. When a digital map is shown in a web application, web developers usually use online services. Create and use self-hosted maps and vector tiles with Tilemaker
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