use and save the openstreetmap background-map offline

Question

good morning or hello (where ever you are and how late it is).

I use ArcGIS within a research project (10.0, on a windows pc). It is important that the results are well documented and reproducible for years. Some results are based on the current openstreetmap map, which I have added as background.

My aim is, that I could save the openstreetmap, able to zoom from 1:100000 to 1:1000 with the adaption of the showed details. Means working with a saved offline-map, but in a way like being online.

I don’t want, that the map get updated in future.

So my questions are:

* is this even possible what I want to do.
* Can you give me an explanation how to realize it, please!

Really, thanks so much!

Andreas

AndreasGriessbach · Answer

Hello.

Thanks at first to FC Basson. Of course there are some advices in the www how to implement osm data to ArcMap. Yesterday I tried out many different ways and finally I got it to import the data. Unfortunately the layout of the layers is not the same like in osm, but for my purposes it is okay.

That’s the way I got the osm data to ArcMap:

* Download and install the Editor for openstreetmap
* download the area you need as *.osm or as *.pbf file. In case of the *.pbf you have to convert the file with the tiny program osmconvert.exe to *.osm: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert
* open ArcMap. In the catalogue create a new File-Geodatabase an define this File-Geodatabase as default (otherwise the result of the next step is an error)
* open in the catalogue the system toolboxes > openstreetmap toolboxes > load osm file (the openstreetmap toolboxes are the result of the installation of the editor for openstreetmap)
* symbolize the osm data

FC_Basson · Answer

You can start here: Downloading data - OpenStreetMap Wiki

AndreasGriessbach · Answer

Has no one any idea?