OS Opendata and

spatialite

Free, Fast and Pretty!

Why bother?

• To provide a self-contained basemap if postgis is not an option.

• Great for offline use.

• Very Fast!

• Ordnance Survey have made it easy

– GML3

– QGIS styles

• It’s FREE!!!

Workflow

1. Download openmap local in GML3

2. Create and register a new spatialite DB in QGIS

3. Load GML layers in QGIS

4. Use db manager to copy layers into db(Repeat)

5. Create spatial indexes (important!)

6. Load styles and save in database

Download openmap local in GML3

Create and register a new spatialite DB

in QGIS

Load GML layers in QGIS

Use db manager to copy layers

into database

Load styles and save in

database

Here’s one I made earlier!