This postgis docker container is based on the official postgres docker image version 9.5 thus using debian:jessie as underlying OS. It creates a database 'gis' owned by user 'postgres' and installs the extension postgis. Further on osmosis and osm2pgsql are installed to be able to merge multiple OSM-files and import the result with osm2pgsql to the database 'gis'.

build container:

docker build -t geofabrik/postgis .

run geofabrik/postgis container and remove it immediately after it is beeing closed

docker run --rm --name postgis -v /path/to/desired/import/data:/data/import geofabrik/postgis

or

run geofabrik/postgis container

docker run --name postgis -v /path/to/desired/import/data:/data/import geofabrik/postgis

• add "-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=super_secret_password" to set a password
• docker stop postgis
• docker start postgis

docker rm postgis

e. g.: docker run --rm --name postgis -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pass -v $HOME/Desktop/import:/data/import geofabrik/postgis

Usage:  docker run [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]
-e, --env=[]                    Set environment variables
-d, --detach                    Run container in background and print container ID
--rm                            Automatically remove the container when it exits
-v, --volume=[]                 Bind mount a volume

The creation of this Open Source Docker container was sponsored by Siemens AG (Building Technologies Division).