OpenStreetView (OSV)  is a Ruby on Rails application.

1. MySQL (Database)
2. Ruby 1.8-dev
3. Rails 2.3.8
4. Rubygems

Installation steps for requirements :

1. MySQL

   Open the terminal and run the following command :
   $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

2. Ruby 1.8-dev

   Open terminal and then write the following command :
   $ sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev

3. Rubygems

   Download Rubygems : rubygems-1.3.7.zip
   Now unzip that using following command in terminal :
   $ cd Downloads (Move to location where you downloaded rubygems)
   $ unzip rubygems-1.3.7.zip

   Now move rubygems-1.3.7 to /usr/local/src
   Open terminal and write
   $ cd Downloads
   $ mv rubygems-1.3.7 /usr/local/src

   After that install rubygems. Open terminal and run
   $ cd /usr/local/src/rubygems-1.3.7
   $ ruby setup.rb

   OR

   You can install rubygems by running following command in terminal:
   $ sudo apt-get install rubygems

4. Rails 2.3.8

   Run following command in terminal:
   $ sudo gem install rails -v 2.3.8

Now check whether you have installed each and everything correctly or not.
Run following in treminal:

      $ ruby -v
      $ gem -v
      $ rails -v

After fulfilling the requirements, its time to download OSV code.

Download the code from:

https://github.com/johnmckerrell/OpenStreetView/downloads

And then extract that somewhere you want.

Or you can do as below:

mkdir OSV
cd OSV
sudo apt-get install git-core;
git clone git://github.com/johnmckerrell/OpenStreetView.git
// or
git clone https://github.com/johnmckerrell/OpenStreetView.git
cd OpenStreetView
cd config
sudo gedit config/database.yml

It will Open the database.yml in Geditor. This file contain the Information regarding the Database connection for OSV So Carefully do as:

a)Change user and password of MySQL and socket as follow
b)socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Now edit the other file as:
sudo gedit config/environment.rb

// Change server name from www.openstreetview.org to localhost in line
// number 7, in line number 4, make version for RAILS_GEM_VERSION as ‘2.3.8’
Now Change the Directory as Follow as:

cd vendor/plugins/
a)git clone http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git restful_authentication
b)sudo rake gems:install
You are Just two Steps away to Run OSV. Now change the Directory as Following and do as:

a)cd OSV/OpenStreetView
b)rake
c)rake db:migrate
d)script/server

The script/server will Start the server , Now you Can run the OSV at localhost as:
 Browse in browser(localhost:3000)