Before you can use this tool for importing Openstreetmap data, you need to install 1. postgresl 2. postgis 3. pgrouting 4. boost 5. expat and to prepare a database. See in the documentation of the pgrouting website for more informations: http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/ For compiling this tool, you will need boost, libpq and expat: Then just type: make Start the program like this: ./osm2pgrouting -file your-OSM-XML-File.osm -conf mapconfig.xml -dbname routing -user postgres -clean all available parameters are: required: -file <file> -- name of your osm xml file -dbname <dbname> -- name of your database -user <user> -- name of the user, which have write access to the database -conf <file> -- name of your configuration xml file optional: -host <host> -- host of your postgresql database (default: 127.0.0.1) -port <port> -- port of your database (default: 5432) -passwd <passwd> -- password for database access -clean -- drop previously created tables -skipnodes -- do not load nodes into the node table (reduces runtime)