OSM to Mapforge converter script
After using C:Geo for a while I wanted to update my maps. Unfortunately the guys from the Mapsforge project didn't update theirs. While trying to convert OSM maps by myself I came across a) a little perl script from Frederik Ramm that got the bounding box from the polygon files and b) SRTM.
I started expanding the script until I got something that could turn a OSM extract into a mapsforge map and optionally add in contour lines.
It would be a waste to keep this just for myself so I put it up on github.
There are two versions of the script bundle.
- The all-in-one package that includes the scripts, Osmosis(0.40.1), a matching Mapforge plugin(0.3.0) and Srtm2Osm(1.12.1.0). - tested to produce working maps - trust the me at your own risk
- the paranoid version just has the scriptsand the XML for the contour lines, you will have to add the rest yourself
- you will need Perl so install that
- Java is also needed
- extract the package to a directory and you're done
- you will need Perl so install that
- Java is also needed
- extract the package to a directory
- get Osmosis and extract it in the osmosis path keeping the structure
- get a matching mapsforge mapwriter plugin, rename it to 'mapsforge-map-writer.jar' and place it in the jar folder; you WILL get errors if the plugin doesn't match the used osmosis version
- get Srtm2Osm and extract it to the Srtm2Osm folder
- you will need:
- a packed OSM extract named [country]-latest.osm.bz2
- polygon file for these extract named [country].poly (those from geofabrik have this format)
- place these in the folder rawdata
- open settings.pl in an editor and change to your liking
- run OsmToMapforge.pl
- your time: the bigger the area you want to create the longer it takes. If you merge in contours first it takes even longer. Long as in 'multiple days'
- memory and storage: if you didn't change the options osmosis will write its temporary files to disk. They usually reach the size of the uncompressed OSM extract.
Srtm2Osm:the current version of Srtm2Osm has a bug that occurs if large areas are used; there is already a fix underway that uses hdd space if this would happen- As the script was only written for myself it is only tested on a Win7 64bit machine
- For the All-In-One package:
- the packed tools have their own license that can be found in the respective directories.
- For the script itself see LICENSE