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Lately i've been trying to play around with getting OSM data extracts and TileMill trying to create my own custom map styles, however I am completely puzzled by the whole database/conversion/import process involved. Can someone please tell me in "for dummies" terms the simplest way of getting usable, customisable OSM data into TileMill using Windows only? Would be greatly appreciated. |
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I think the easiest way is to use Shapefiles. There are pre-exported at cloudemade and geofabrik for example. And you find a lot more Shapefiles on the web. Also you can later export your own shapefiles from osm, as described in the linked wiki article. Have fun with tilemill :) Can TileMill really directly import OSM or PBF files? Because your answer does not gives an answer how to bring the OSM into TileMill.
(07 May '12, 19:14)
mobrob
@mobrob: No, Tilemill is not able to load OSM or PBF files directly. You have to load the raw OSM data in a suitable database and tell Tilemill to use that source, or convert the OSM data to shapefiles. Also see http://www.tilemill.com ... there are some howto docs that explain in more detail.
(07 May '12, 21:29)
stephan75
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You find a detailed description about Map rendering with TileMill on Windows in the Wiki of TopoMapCreator. Unfortunately the procedure is long, but the important thing: It works on Windows (Win 7 x64). It follows the classical procedure:
More on the Wiki of TopoMapCreator. |
The answer may depend on the size of your import. Do you plan to work on a locality, suburb, village, town, city, county, country, continent, planet ?
Well I was planning on testing it with a city, which I found a separate OSM data file for, which is about a 75x75km area.