Basemap Importing

Setup

For the basemap import you need the folling data:

• Shapefile containing world-wide OSm coastlines. You can download the shapefile from osmdata.openstreetmap.de. Choose the WGS84 format. Unzip the resulting file and copy the *.shp file as coastlines.shp into your maps directory.

Create a directory world in your maps directory.

Calling the basemap importer

The map repository pipeline does this automatically: scripts/mapgen/mapgen-basemap.sh imports the pre-filtered planet export with stylesheets/basemap.ost, generates the water index from the coastline shapefile with this tool, and places the result in the served repository as a version-keyed slot. Use the procedure below for a one-off run outside the pipeline.

Call he basemap importer:

  $ ../BasemapImport/src/BasemapImport --destinationDirectory world --coastlines coastlines.shp

The Basemap importer will create a water.idx file in the world directory.