Found the Import pages on the wiki.. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Import http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Import/Catalogue http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Import/Software
and added stub rows for Arezzo, Falkland Islands, Sudan, Merano (could the importers fill in the details here please) Are there any other imports not listed there. Under Import/Software, we can start gathering information particularly about importing shapefiles. ----- Original Message ---- From: Mikel Maron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; talk@openstreetmap.org Cc: Cristiano Giovando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 1, 2008 10:16:34 AM Subject: Re: How to import shapefile into OSM Cristiano has imported the data freed in Merano in November, which followed a similar conversion path. Might be some reusable tools there? The main trick, as I understood it, was to convert the Shapefile data model, which is list based, into the network model of OSM. That means finding intersecting streets, and have the Way reference a common Node. Also, convert directly into the OSM format, and upload via JOSM -- this allows a manual check on the data and preserves all the tags, etc. Now that we've had 3 or 4 imports from Shapefiles, we should at least start to collect knowledge in the wiki, if not build some generic tools to help this process. ----- Original Message ---- From: Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:24:35 PM Subject: How to import shapefile into OSM Hello, as a result of the 1st Italian Mapping Party we have some geodata freed by the Municipality of Arezzo. The data is in ESRI shapefile format, any suggestion to convert it into OSM? We need to open it in JOSM before upload. I already managed to reproject into WGS84 and eventually convert into GPX, but in this way I lost the tags, e.g. highway names. It seems to me that the TIGER import scripts are too TIGER-centric. Happy Mapping! -- Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
