I created a Python script to convert OGR supported files (Shapefile and many others) to the polygon filter file format used by Osmosis and other tools. It will optionally buffer and simplify polygons for you. You can buffer point and line features to create polys as well.
My motivation was for extracting OSM data for county political and school districts, the boundaries of which are provided as Shapefiles. I could have assembled ogr2osm, polyconvert, polybuffer, and simplify-poly, but writing this seemed easier. Take a look here, and please provide any comments. I can put it on the OSM SVN later: https://gist.github.com/1434632 -Josh _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
