[Xastir] OpenStreetMap Shapefiles available.

[John Ronan]

On 4 Jul 2009, at 13:39, Carl Makin wrote:

> Evening All,
> I haven't seen this mentioned around.  A company in Germany called  
> GEOFABRIK are processing the OSM data nightly into shapefiles and  
> making them freely available at;
>
> http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
>
> I've grabbed the Australia-oceania set which is about 70MB zipped.   
> I've got it running with an instance of Xastir on FreeBSD and a  
> dbfawk file custom built for it and it's quite good.
>
> Worth a look, especially for those of us outside of North America  
> which is all most of the online maps cover.
>
> Carl.
> (vk1kcm)


Hi Carl,

I just came across your post now. Do you have a dbfawk file I could  
possibly use as a template?

de John
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