Tuesday, 28 April 2015

openstreetmap - What GIS application can open and use .osm files?


A quick question that I don't see an answer to elsewhere: if I download a .osm dataset from Planet.osm (for example) which GIS applications could consume/display this data without translation?


For example, this page says ArcGIS 10 "can use OpenStreetMap as a basemap" - but I'm not sure if that means it will open .osm files or read the data from a service?


So, are there any GIS apps (proprietary or open source) which will read .osm files?



Or perhaps taking a step back: is OSM data meant to be consumed like this, or is OSM meant to be used mostly for dynamic display of mapping on web pages?



Answer



http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GIS_software


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