PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

Getting ready

We need the following in place before we can proceed with the steps required for the recipe:

1. Install osm2pgsql. If you are using Windows, follow the instructions available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql. If you are on Linux, you can install it from the preceding website or from packages. For example, for Debian distributions, use the following:

      $ sudo apt-get install osm2pgsql

2. For more information about the installation of the osm2pgsql command for other Linux distributions, macOS X, and MS Windows, please refer to the osm2pgsql web page available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql.
3. It's most likely that you will need to compile osm2pgsql yourself as the one that is installed with your package ...