Probably because for ogr2ogr, c and c++ knowledge is required. I made my first steps in this direction about a year a go.
I encourage Ciprian to do what he does. One thing that might be helpfull though would be to use the C# wrappers already available for ogr2ogr in the project instead of shapelib. Anyway, I requested to join cipriantalaba's project on Google Code. Karl Newman schreef: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Ciprian Talaba > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I started the development on a tool that can convert from OSM > format to > Shapefile format, as the only tool available in SVN is a pain to use, > and I haven't try to port it on Windows. For this I have created a > project on GoogleCode: http://code.google.com/p/osm2shp/. > It is based on .Net Framework 2.0 and uses a wrapper to connect to > shapelib library. The application is in an early development stage > and I > have some ideas on how developped it further, but your inputs are > welcomed anytime. > > --Ciprian > > > Why don't you write it as a driver for ogr2ogr? (www.gdal.org > <http://www.gdal.org>) That's an oft-requested utility, which would > open up a wide variety of export formats. You could start with > read-only OSM access (which is effectively what you're doing now). > > Karl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev