[Xastir] OpenStreetMap Shapefiles available. (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

Here's an earlier message about it.  --we7u

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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:39:07 +1000
From: Carl Makin <carl at stagecraft.cx>
Reply-To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
To: Xastir Users <xastir at xastir.org>, Australian APRS Users <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Subject: [Xastir] OpenStreetMap Shapefiles available.

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)