Greetings, I too am a GIS professional and have worked on several imports of some government data lately. Since you're a GIS guy, I suggest looking at the wiki [1] for my Baltimore County import under spatial workflow. I used a ModelBuilder model in ArcGIS to chunk, simplify and project certain features.
Instead of shp2osm, I used *ogr2osm* [2], which definitely works and is pretty easy to set up (I'm no crack coder). List member Paul Norman made that tool. ogr2osm can (with practically zero configuration) convert shapefiles to .osm format. You can even write a custom translation [3] to translate the GIS attributes to OSM friendly tags if you want. Then for automated import, I suggest the OSM Upload Mechanical Toolkit as used in another import I'm in the middle of [4]. It works great with the latest API. [1] https://github.com/baltimorecounty/openstreetmap/wiki/Buildings-and-Addresses-Import [2] https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm [3] https://github.com/osmlab/bmorebuildings/blob/master/address-building/ogr2osm-translations/bc-address.py [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore_Buildings_Import_2.0#Uploading Questions, let me know. Thanks, Elliott On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:08 PM EthnicFood IsGreat < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello list. I am a newbie as far as importing into OSM, but I am also a > GIS professional working for the City of Indianapolis and I have access to > all our GIS layers. I would like to import some of our layers into OSM, > and I'm aware that I need to publish a plan first, but right now I have a > technical question. I want to use the shp2osm script to convert our > shapefiles, but the OSM wiki says that the script is not compatible with > API 0.6. Does that mean that if I use the script and then try to import > the data into OSM using JOSM, it won't work? > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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