Migrate from OpenStreetMap

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New in v20.2: CockroachDB supports efficiently storing and querying spatial data.

This page has instructions for migrating data from OpenStreetMap .pbf data files into CockroachDB using osm2pgsql and IMPORT.

In the example below we will import the OSM data for Australia that is available from GeoFabrik GmbH.

Before You Begin

To follow along with the example below, you will need the following prerequisites:

CockroachDB installed and running
osm2pgsql

Step 1. Download the OpenStreetMap data

First, download the OSM data:

wget https://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/australia-latest.osm.pbf

Step 2. Prepare the database

cockroach sql --insecure

Next, create a database to hold the Australia map data:

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS australia;
USE australia;

Step 3. Import the OpenStreetMap data

Run the osm2pgsql command shown below to convert the OSM data and import it into the australia database. The arguments to osm2pgsql shown below assume a locally running insecure cluster and may need to be changed depending on your system. You may also need to tweak the cache setting (-C) depending on your system's hardware.

osm2pgsql -C 2048 -d australia -U root -H localhost -P 26257 australia-latest.osm.pbf

This will take a few (30+) minutes to run on a laptop, and there will be a lot of output. A successful run will look something like the following:

osm2pgsql version 1.3.0

Allocating memory for dense node cache
Allocating dense node cache in one big chunk
Allocating memory for sparse node cache
Sharing dense sparse
Node-cache: cache=2048MB, maxblocks=32768*65536, allocation method=3
Using built-in tag processing pipeline
Using projection SRS 3857 (Spherical Mercator)
WARNING:  setting session var "synchronous_commit" is a no-op
WARNING:  setting session var "synchronous_commit" is a no-op
Setting up table: planet_osm_point
NOTICE:  UNLOGGED TABLE will behave as a regular table in CockroachDB
NOTICE:  storage parameter "autovacuum_enabled = 'off'" is ignored
WARNING:  setting session var "synchronous_commit" is a no-op
Setting up table: planet_osm_line
NOTICE:  UNLOGGED TABLE will behave as a regular table in CockroachDB
NOTICE:  storage parameter "autovacuum_enabled = 'off'" is ignored
WARNING:  setting session var "synchronous_commit" is a no-op
Setting up table: planet_osm_polygon
NOTICE:  UNLOGGED TABLE will behave as a regular table in CockroachDB
NOTICE:  storage parameter "autovacuum_enabled = 'off'" is ignored
WARNING:  setting session var "synchronous_commit" is a no-op
Setting up table: planet_osm_roads
NOTICE:  UNLOGGED TABLE will behave as a regular table in CockroachDB
NOTICE:  storage parameter "autovacuum_enabled = 'off'" is ignored

Reading in file: australia-latest.osm.pbf
Using PBF parser.
Processing: Node(66994k 411.0k/s) Way(4640k 7.13k/s) Relation(124777 1313.4/s)  parse time: 909s
Node stats: total(66994811), max(7888181047) in 163s
Way stats: total(4640490), max(845495883) in 651s
Relation stats: total(124777), max(11596803) in 95s
Sorting data and creating indexes for planet_osm_point
node cache: stored: 66994811(100.00%), storage efficiency: 50.93% (dense blocks: 800, sparse nodes: 62492547), hit rate: 100.00%
Sorting data and creating indexes for planet_osm_line
Sorting data and creating indexes for planet_osm_polygon
Sorting data and creating indexes for planet_osm_roads
Using native order for clustering
Using native order for clustering
Using native order for clustering
Using native order for clustering
Copying planet_osm_roads to cluster by geometry finished
Creating geometry index on planet_osm_roads
Copying planet_osm_point to cluster by geometry finished
Creating geometry index on planet_osm_point
Creating indexes on planet_osm_roads finished
Copying planet_osm_polygon to cluster by geometry finished
Creating geometry index on planet_osm_polygon
All indexes on planet_osm_roads created in 318s
Completed planet_osm_roads
Copying planet_osm_line to cluster by geometry finished
Creating geometry index on planet_osm_line
Creating indexes on planet_osm_point finished
All indexes on planet_osm_point created in 1084s
Completed planet_osm_point
Creating indexes on planet_osm_polygon finished
All indexes on planet_osm_polygon created in 1897s
Completed planet_osm_polygon
Creating indexes on planet_osm_line finished
All indexes on planet_osm_line created in 1961s
Completed planet_osm_line

Osm2pgsql took 2879s overall

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Migrate from OpenStreetMap

Before You Begin

Step 1. Download the OpenStreetMap data

Step 2. Prepare the database

Step 3. Import the OpenStreetMap data

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