OpenStreetMap
I would really love to just import and play with the data in the planet extract, or the data for Romania, and try to do some statistics, but it`s to impossible just to install and make the software work.
I i know a thing or 2 about linux, but it still to complicated.
I really believe we should try and have a more integrated way of exploring the data, with GUI Tools, not complicated as is now.
For the sake of simplicity, this for now can be accomplished by ready to go, VirtualBox or VMware image disk, where i should only put the extract that i get from geofabrik
https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md
Discussion
Comment from 26eb5473101d742b174d730717409668 on 28 May 2014 at 22:11
And who should provide all those tools? Magical unicorns? Remember: talk is cheap but developers are rare and overworked.
Comment from Linhares on 29 May 2014 at 14:35
Have you tried this tutorial from switch2osm?
Like you I know a thing or two about Linux and I manage to install a tile server in a virtual machine using virtual box.
Abraços, Linhares
Comment from joost schouppe on 19 June 2014 at 15:18
I actually have such a vm running, but I don’t know how to extract a snapshot as a downloadable file. Still, I’m not sure a postgres database is the most interesting repository. Anyhow, I didn’t know anything about Linux and did get things to work with help from the maker of these tools. (I asked mostly stupid questions, in retrospect) If you get stuck somewhere, feel free to ask me for help!