diff --git a/plugins/input/osm/Makefile.example b/plugins/input/osm/Makefile.example
deleted file mode 100644
index b89658478..000000000
--- a/plugins/input/osm/Makefile.example
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-CXXFLAGS = `xml2-config --cflags` -I/usr/local/include/mapnik -I/usr/include/boost -I/usr/include/freetype2  -I/home/nick/mapnik-osm/agg/include  -g
-LDFLAGS = `xml2-config --libs` -L/usr/local/lib  
-LDFLAGS5 = `xml2-config --libs` -L/usr/local/lib -lmapnik 
-OBJ = test.o osm.o osmparser.o
-test: $(OBJ) 
-  g++ -o test $(OBJ) $(LDFLAGS) 
-render: render.o
-  g++ -o render render.o $(LDFLAGS5) 
-
diff --git a/plugins/input/osm/libMakefile b/plugins/input/osm/libMakefile
deleted file mode 100644
index d072ba2f1..000000000
--- a/plugins/input/osm/libMakefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-CXXFLAGS = `xml2-config --cflags` -I/usr/local/include/mapnik -I/usr/include/boost -I/usr/include/freetype2  -I/home/nick/mapnik-osm/agg/include  -fPIC -g
-MAPNIK_OSM_OBJ = osmparser.o osm.o osm_datasource.o osm_featureset.o 
-osm.input: $(MAPNIK_OSM_OBJ)
-  g++ -shared -o osm.input $(MAPNIK_OSM_OBJ) 
diff --git a/plugins/input/osm/render.cpp b/plugins/input/osm/render.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 707ac1285..000000000
--- a/plugins/input/osm/render.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-/*****************************************************************************
- *
- * This file is part of Mapnik (c++ mapping toolkit)
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2011 Artem Pavlenko
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
- *
- *****************************************************************************/
-
-// stl
-#include <iostream>
-#include <cmath>
-
-// mapnik
-#include <mapnik/map.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/layer.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/box2d.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/agg_renderer.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/image_util.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/load_map.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/datasource_cache.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/font_engine_freetype.hpp>
-#include <mapnik/projection.hpp>
-
-int main(int argc,char *argv[])
-{
-    if (argc < 6)
-    {
-        std::cerr << "Usage: render XMLfile w s e n [OSMfile]" << std::endl;
-        exit(0);
-    }
-
-    mapnik::datasource_cache::instance().register_datasources("/usr/local/lib/mapnik/input");
-    mapnik::freetype_engine::register_font("/usr/local/lib/mapnik/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf");
-
-    mapnik::Map m(800, 800);
-    mapnik::load_map(m, argv[1]);
-
-    if (argc > 6)
-    {
-        mapnik::parameters p;
-        p["type"] = "osm";
-        p["file"] = argv[6];
-        for (int count = 0; count < m.layer_count(); count++)
-        {
-            mapnik::parameters q = m.get_layer(count).datasource()->params();
-            m.get_layer(count).set_datasource(mapnik::datasource_cache::instance().create(p));
-        }
-    }
-
-    mapnik::box2d<double> bbox (atof(argv[2]), atof(argv[3]), atof(argv[4]), atof(argv[5]));
-
-    m.zoom_to_box(bbox);
-
-    mapnik::image_32 buf (m.width(), m.height());
-    mapnik::agg_renderer<mapnik::image_32> r(m, buf);
-    r.apply();
-
-    mapnik::save_to_file<mapnik::image_data_32>(buf.data(), "blah.png", "png");
-
-    return 0;
-}