Ian/Serge, Thanks for the pointers. It didn't hit until I read the wiki pages you referred to that editing is inherently different than importing, and that what I am doing is really bulk importing. And the idea is to first convert to .osm format locally, then upload to OSM. I'll look more into shp2osm and shp-to-osm.
Something I'm missing, once the data is in osm format, how do I get it into OSM? Can I continue to edit the osm manually, such as with a background image/WMS service? Is this where "importing" turns into "editing" and I should use JOSM, etc...? Serge, I may be contacting you soon about what you're doing in DC. We have some other state-wide Delaware datasets we'd love to get into OSM. Thanks for the offer. - John Ian Dees wrote: > For now, there are two options. One us a python script written by > chris schmidt. The other is a java app written by me. > > The python one is called shp2osm. It requires a bit of programming > knowhow and some dependency magic, but it allows you to convert a > little more programmatically. > > The java version is an all-in-one solution and will work out of the > box. It doesn't allow you to do complicated mappings but it will work > in the majority of cases. Plus if you ask me I will add your requested > feature pretty quickly. > > Shp2osm and shp-to-osm both have links on this wiki page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp2osm > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 28, 2009, at 1:57 PM, John Callahan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have some polygon data (building footprints) and point data (places of >> interest) that I'd like to get into OSM. I've played around with >> Potlatch over the years, and have plenty of GIS and IT experience, but >> want to get more involved in contributing to OSM. >> >> For the polygons, there are about 100+ building footprints in a >> shapefile. What would be a recommended way to load those into OSM? >> I've just started to play with JOSM and the QGIS plugin. Ideally, I'd >> like to overlay my data (shapefiles) with OSM data locally, put as >> background some WMS services or other imagery (public domain, of >> course!), make any necessary edits, then upload to OSM. >> >> Any recommended software? Anything I should watch out for? Two things >> I can think of are 1) edit my attribute columns to match OSM tags where >> possible, and 2) check to see if these data already exist in OSM (they >> don't for the polys and some do for the points.) Thanks for any >> advice! >> >> - John >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
