I'd be more than happy to help with the shapefile to osm conversion. I've got a fairly universal conversion app written in java.
Let me know when you're ready to convert. On Jan 2, 2009, at 5:38 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Cool, hope you're safely back by now then. > > You also need to make sure you get license permission to do all this. > > The best thing to do is ask on the dev@ list for help... which I'll do > for you now by cc'ing... > > Best > > Steve > > > On 10 Dec 2008, at 10:46, Adam Layne wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> I'm Adam, a college student in the states and a volunteer for OSM. >> This summer I talked to you and dev alot about using United States >> Forest Service data on OSM to illustrate national park boundaries >> and paths in the US. this all kind of fell through before I went off >> to East Africa for 4 months, where I am still for two weeks, but I >> want to resurrect this project again. As far as I can tell I just >> need to contact each state's (maybe each park's) USFS office and get >> shapefiles, convert them to .osm, and upload them to the map. I'm >> willing to do the contacting, but I either need someone to do the >> conversions, write me a script to do the conversions, or teach me >> how to do them myself. I have some small programming experience, so >> I am up to the task of learning, but if you could point me in the >> right direction that would be great. I'd like to pick one forest or >> state to do completely first, to get the kinks out, then make a page >> on the wiki detailing what is done and what is left to do. I'm happy >> to take care of as much of the work as possible, but like i said, i >> need a little help. >> >> thanks, >> >> Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
