Hi, I am looking for some help setting up openstreetmap in my existing rails app. I am new to the whole maps thing. In my app i am tracking locations of vehicles. now I want to add a feature where I can get the maxspeed, name and type of a road as well. I am considering openstreetmap because I dont want to make third party api calls for every location I get as the number of locations are greater than 1M per day. Do I need to duplicate entire schema of OSM? as there are many irrelevant tables in the schema. or simple I should parse the .osm file and create tables for nodes ways and relations only? Also I would need to keep this data updated. I would really appreciate if any one can point me in the right direction.. or share some links that would help me start? Thanks asked 19 Jul '17, 13:36  aitizazk |
One Answer:
You definitely don't need to use the OSM API schema and likely a (potentially slimmed down) osm2pgsql schema that actually creates the geometries will be a lot less work than rolling your own. This will give you an updateable DB that contain as many or as little tags that you want. answered 19 Jul '17, 14:46  SimonPoole ♦ edited 19 Jul '17, 15:21 |
crosspost: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45190860/integrate-openstreetmap-in-existing-rails-app
It would be great if you could help out instead posting crosspost on both platforms...