Quick Start to Geo Faker

This section covers how to get started with the Faker version of PgOSM Flex, also known as Geo Faker.

Warning: This project is in early development! Things will be changing over the first few releases (e.g. before 0.5.0).

The basic process to using Geo Faker are:

• Run PgOSM Flex with custom layerset
• Load Geo Faker objects
• Run stored procedures
• Move temp table data to real tables

Load OpenStreetMap Data

Load the region/subregion you want using the PgOSM Flex Docker image. These instructions are modified from PgOSM Flex's Quick Start section. The following loads the data into a PostGIS enabled database in a geofaker Docker container available on port 5433.

mkdir ~/pgosm-data
export POSTGRES_USER=postgres
export POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword

docker pull rustprooflabs/geofaker:latest

docker run --name geofaker -d --rm \
    -v ~/pgosm-data:/app/output \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    -e POSTGRES_USER=$POSTGRES_USER \
    -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD \
    -p 5439:5432 -d rustprooflabs/geofaker

docker exec -it \
    geofaker python3 docker/pgosm_flex.py \
    --ram=8 \
    --region=north-america/us \
    --subregion=district-of-columbia \
    --layerset=faker

Load and Run Faker Objects

After the data completes processing, load the Geo Faker database structures in the geofaker schema. This deploys the functions and procedures needed, runs the processing, and runs pg_dump saving the faked data into ~/pgosm-data/geofaker_stores_customers.sql.

docker exec -it geofaker /bin/bash run_faker.sh

Load the saved data into a database of your choice.

psql -d pgosm_faker -f ~/pgosm-data/geofaker_stores_customers.sql