Using shp2geocouch to push OSM data into geocouch

Today I installed the utility shp2geocouch on Mac OS X 1.6.

First I needed to update RubyGems...

sudo gem update --system

Then I could install shp2geocouch

sudo gem install shp2geocouch

Next I downloaded OSM data for Copenhagen, Denmark

wget http://download.cloudmade.com/europe/northern_europe/denmark/copenhagen/copenhagen.shapefiles.zip
unzip copenhagen.shapefiles.zip
cd copenhagen.shapefiles

Finally I used shp2geocouch to upload one of the shape files to iriscouch.com (database gd.iriscouch.com/cphosm).

shp2geocouch europe_northern_europe_denmark_copenhagen_highway.shp gd.iriscouch.com/cphosm

This takes a while and the job is still running on my MacBook Pro (after ~10 minutes 16000 documents have been loaded into iriscouch.com). The final count was 33306 documents.

As a final touch, the script replicates geocouch-utils + map browser and tells me

view your data on a map at http://gd.iriscouch.com/cphosm/_design/geo/_rewrite

The map uses OSM tiles from cloudmade as background, and fetches clickable road data from iriscouch using XHR:

• http://gd.iriscouch.com/cphosm/_design/geo/_rewrite/data?bbox=12.53%2C55.73%2C12.54%2C55.73

Clicking the link, gives you this: