Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-11 Thread Nakor
Ian Dees wrote: A new version of shp-to-osm 0.7 has been released to fix a memory problem when using huge shapefiles. If you're using shp-to-osm to read shapefiles greater than a few megabytes, you will want to use this new version. Get it at the URL below. Hello, Is there an

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-08 Thread Ian Dees
A new version of shp-to-osm 0.7 has been released to fix a memory problem when using huge shapefiles. If you're using shp-to-osm to read shapefiles greater than a few megabytes, you will want to use this new version. Get it at the URL below. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ian Dees

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ian Dees wrote: - tags for multipolygon relations have been moved from the relation to the outer ways (fixing a bug with the -t option) Why that? I think that having tags on the outer way is a legacy thing; when I create new multipolygons, I leave the outer way untagged and put the tags

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
Re: tags on the relation That might be possable, but its sorcery for shp-to-osm, as (i dont think it can be done with the 'rules.txt' file? As the rules simply puts tags on node-way-area. (Shp2osm could maybe)? However, i think that i might wrong in my crazy assumptions. :) Because the tags

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
If the area was split into 2 or 3 regular polygons... It would be easier to work with. -1, multipolygons are quite usefull and I think we should keep them and go further in their use. Currently there are still problems with their rendering in mapnik (doesn't cut holes when the inner way is

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I also think that Frederik is right: it should be possible to assemble different outer ways to one outer polygon and define it's meaning with tags just on the relation This *is* already possible - and also necessary for (at least!) any polygon with a

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/11/4 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I also think that Frederik is right: it should be possible to assemble different outer ways to one outer polygon and define it's meaning with tags just on the relation This *is* already possible - and also

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/4 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I also think that Frederik is right: it should be possible to assemble different outer ways to one outer polygon and define it's meaning with tags just on the relation This *is* already possible - and also

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/11/4 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2009/11/4 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I also think that Frederik is right: it should be possible to assemble different outer ways to one outer polygon and define it's meaning with tags just on

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ian Dees wrote: - tags for multipolygon relations have been moved from the relation to the outer ways (fixing a bug with the -t option) Why that? I think that having tags on the outer way is a legacy thing; when

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/4 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org This *is* already possible - and also necessary for (at least!) any polygon with a geometry of more than 2000 points. OK, everything is possible. Does this work in

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Ian, Ian Dees wrote: Why that? I think that having tags on the outer way is a legacy thing; when I create new multipolygons, I leave the outer way untagged and put the tags on the relation only. This becomes especially important if the outer ring consist of multiple

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: So in otherwords, the 'outer' is not supposed to be tagged eithor? .. and just tags on the relation? I think the idea is that a tag on the outer represents the way or polygon, not the multipolygon. Say you have an

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Ian Dees
I cut a new version (0.7.1) that fixed a few bugs I introduced when adding features and reverted to putting tags on the relation. Pick it up in the same spot. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles

[OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-03 Thread Ian Dees
I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles to OSM format. This version adds two important features: - glomming: the ability to connect ways based on a key/value pair - tags for multipolygon relations have been moved from the relation to the outer ways (fixing a bug with the

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool thanks :) Great Job! Sam On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles to OSM format. This version adds two important features: - glomming: the ability to connect ways based on a key/value pair -

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool thanks :) Great Job! Sam On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles to OSM format. This version adds two important features: - glomming: the ability to connect ways based on a key/value pair -