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Installation

Requirements

Imposm runs with Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 and is tested on Linux and Mac OS X.

Other dependencies are:

Some parts are written as a C extension and so you need to have a C/C++ compiler and the Python header files.

Imposm also requires the following Python packages:

  • imposm.parser: XML and PBF parsing sub-package
  • Shapely: Python bindings for GEOS. 1.2 or newer is required, >=1.2.10 is recommended.

These Python packages will be installed automatically when you install imposm with pip or easy_install (see below).

To install all requirements on Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install build-essential python-dev protobuf-compiler \
                      libprotobuf-dev libtokyocabinet-dev python-psycopg2 \
                      libgeos-c1

Note

A lot of geometries in OpenStreetMap are not valid according to the simple feature model and you might get unexpected results when working with these invalid geometries in GEOS or PostGIS. Imposm tries to make all geometries valid with the help of GEOS, but GEOS fails to do this in rare conditions and sometimes even crashes one of the Imposm process. GEOS became much more robust and you should upgrade to at least 3.2 when you notice Assertion [...] failed errors.

You can install GEOS into a local directory and let Imposm use it by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/local/lib
imposm [args]

Limit to

The --limit-to option requires:

On Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install libgdal1-dev libspatialindex-dev

And after the Imposm installation below:

pip install rtree

Installation

Imposm is registered at the Python Package Index and you can install it with pip or easy_install.

sudo aptitude install python-pip
sudo pip install imposm

You should now be able to start Imposm:

imposm --help

virtualenv

It is recommended to install Imposm into a virtual Python environment, especially if you are also running other Python based software.

On Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install python-virtualenv
virtualenv venv
venv/bin/pip install imposm

You can then start Imposm from directly your virtual environment:

venv/bin/imposm --help