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Load OSM map files into PostgreSQL

You can use OpenStreetMaps on your own hardware. You need to grab map files first, which can be found at https://download.geofabrik.de. Once you downloaded it, install PostgreSQL and enable few extensions: It may be useful at some point later on especially if you would like to try build your own tile server. Next you need to install osm2pgsql and it can be found in system packages in Ubuntu 22. Then: Now give it database password and it will start loading. Depening on hardware it might take from few minutes to tens of hours in case of large files like Europe