OpenStreetMap Paraguay Data

We realized that one of the most used mirror of OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik) doesn't have the Paraguay map, so we created ourselves.

The idea is to show them we exists and try to make/help them to include this map. It's the only one from South America that it's not included in their mirror and we don't know why.

Steps to create Paraguay map

1. Download south-america.osm.pbf

wget -c http://download.geofabrik.de/south-america-latest.osm.pbf

1. Crop the map using the paraguay.poly file

./osmconvert \
	--hash-memory=400-50-2 \
    south-america-latest.osm.pbf \
	-B=paraguay.poly \
	--out-pbf \
	-o=south-america-paraguay.osm.pbf

How to get the paraguay.poly file

We use this website to get the paraguay.poly file:

• http://polygons.openstreetmap.fr/
  • Paraguay: http://polygons.openstreetmap.fr/?id=287077

Results

If you want to download the .osm.pbf generated by this script, you can get it from here:

http://mkaufmann.com.ar/~humitos/osm/south-america-paraguay.osm.pbf

Future ideas

1. Make the automatic script more robust
2. Run it weekly on the server to get an updated map
3. Add Venezuela, Guyana and other missing in Geofabrik