Add support to arbitrary OSM extracts about headway HOT 5 CLOSED

Thank you for opening this issue! This has been on my mind but it's not something I've directly addressed yet. Using BUILD.md as a template I came up with this as a possible procedure for bringing up an instance with an arbitrary extract. There might be complications along the way but I like that it remains fairly simple, though not as simple as bringing up a city that BBBike covers.

1. Download an OSM extract and and put it inside of a "data" subdirectory e.g. mkdir -p ./data && cd ./data && wget https://example.com/Atlantis.osm.pbf

2. Create a file in the data directory with the bounding box of your osm extract, formatted like: minLat minLng maxLat maxLng. As an example, the bounding box of the seattle metro area is approximately. -122.462 47.394 -122.005 47.831

3. Execute make Atlantis using your extract name.

4. Make a .env file with configuration. See/copy .env.example for defaults. In particular:

   1. HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL (Optional for fully local setup) Pick a base URL for the domain you wish to serve on, paying attention to scheme (http vs https), domain and port (if not default). This will look like "http://example.com" or "http://maps.example.com:8080". Please omit the trailing slash.
   2. HEADWAY_AREA: The name of the osm extract (without the .osm.pbf suffix).

5. Execute docker-compose up -d to bring up a headway server on port 8080.

6. (For internet-facing installations only) reverse-proxy internet traffic to port 8080.

from headway.

If this seems reasonable to people I'll probably try and iron out the issues later today or maybe sometime this week if I don't get to it today. I think there will be issues.

from headway.

Hi @ellenhp, have you started on this? I want to add my entire region of my country as nothing near me is available on BBBike. Your method for updating the Makefile is easy enough for me to do.

e.g. make custom NewZealandNorthIsland "-122.462 47.394 -122.005 47.831"

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I haven't started on this yet, and I'm on a small vacation right now so I won't be able to until I get back. I'm glad people are interested though! If you want to try feel free to comment here with any issues you find and any workarounds. Off the top of my head I know you'll need to define the bbox and the name like you did in your example command.

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This should be implemented now. See https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/blob/main/BUILD.md for documentation and please do open issues if you find any!

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