Patrick - could you send over a shapefile so I can take a look at the kind of richness you are talking aobut?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Patrick Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick > > At the moment I feel that the shapefile export files you produce are way too > limited to be of much use in GIS processing. The problem is that you are > very restrictive in terms of the attributes you attach to the geometry, and > vice versa the amount of geometry you exclude based on not supported > attributes. > I know that if you were to include all geometry and more importantly all > attributes, than the shapefiles would become much bigger and lots of GIS > systems would struggle to cope with the huge tables. > > I propose as I have done for my OSM to Manifold GIS importer, to create one > shapefile for points, lines, polygons, include in those shapefiles crucially > OSM ID as well as the most commonl y used tags (highway, amenity, name, > landuse .... ). > But then create a CSV file that will hold triplets of OSM ID, key, value to > hold *all* of the remaining attribute data. That way, any information that a > user might be interested in can easily be linked back to the geometry using > the OSM ID. > > Hope that helps > > Cheers > Patrick > > Nick Black wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Over at downloads.cloudmade.com, we've just added Navit format files >> for most countries of the world derived from OSM data. The Navit >> files will be updated each week, shortly after planet is released. We >> had a quick look at Navit on Frday afternoon - the files load and >> allow routing, but there are a few rough edges, like flight paths in >> Germany. >> >> Navit's been around for a while now and it seems like a cool project. >> Are many people in OSM using it regularly? If so, what platforms are >> you using it on? It would be awesome to get it running on Open Tom - >> its Linux / GTK based, so this should be feasible. >> >> You can grab the Europe Navit file from : >> >> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe >> >> The format was requested by Wolfgang Silbermayr from the Navit >> project. I'd love to host more formats, so please shout out if >> there's something else that would be useful. >> >> >> > -- Nick Black -------------------------------- http://www.blacksworld.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
