Import OSM India data locally

Import OpenStreetMap data for India

Setup

1. Setup postgres with postgis
2. Setup osm2pgsql and download the default osm import schema default.style
3. Create an empty postgis database called gis for the data as the user postgres

createdb -U postgres gis
psql -U postgres -d gis -c 'create extension postgis;'
psql -U postgres -d gis -c 'create extension hstore;'

Import

1. Download the latest India extract from Geofabrik: india-latest.osm.pbf
2. Import the pbf into postgres database gis using osm2pgsql

osm2pgsql -U postgres -H localhost -P 5432 ~/Downloads/india-latest.osm.pbf --cache 6000 --hstore-column 'name:' --style ~/Downloads/default.style