I am trying to import OSM data into Spatialite.
The data is a query from overpass called features.osm
I'm using spatialite 3.0, and following examples, I have created a new database with:
$ spatialite features.sqlite
then I import the data using
$ spatialite_osm_net -o features.osm -d features.sqlite -T features
This results in the following output:
SQLite version: 3.7.9
SpatiaLite version: 3.0.0-beta
Loading OSM nodes ... wait please ...
Loaded 11 OSM nodes
Verifying OSM ways ... wait please ...
Verified 0 OSM ways
Disambiguating OSM nodes ... wait please ...
No duplicate OSM nodes found - fine ...
Loading network ARCs ... wait please ...
Loaded 0 network ARCs
Dropping temporary table 'osm_tmp_nodes' ... wait please ...
Dropped table 'osm_tmp_nodes'
Dropping index 'from_to' ... wait please ...
Dropped index 'from_to'
VACUUMing the DB ... wait please ...
All done: OSM graph was successfully loaded
However when I open the database and view the contents of 'features' table, its empty. What am I missing here? Perhaps I'm trying to fit a square peg in a round hole?
What I want, is to be able to store osm data in the sqlite database and execute queries to retrieve nodes/ways/relations for a specific bounds (just like my original url request).
Best Answer
Use the spatialite_osm_raw tool for importing OSM files (raw format tables, strictly corresponding to XML
"Also this tool is intended to parse a whole OSM dataset, thus creating the corresponding SpatiaLite's DB-file; but in this case the generated DB-file will adopt a completely different data layout than in the previous scenario. In this case will be adopted a data layout closely mapping OSM objects, their data attributes and their mutual relationships; fully preserving the original OSM data model, and carefully avoiding to introduce any unpleasant information suppression. The intended goal of this tool is not at all to produce a DB-file usable by GIS applications: it's instead the one to get a DB-file you can use in order to gather statistical infos, to support some post-processing task and so on."
Example:
You can view the imported data with spatlite_gui
https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite-tools/index
Online Examples:
https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite-tools/wiki?name=spatialite_osm_raw