This actually sounds relatively easy to do... I will look into it before
releasing the new version that puts tags back on relations.

Anyone else have relatively simple feature requests for shp-to-osm. I will
have a little bit of time today.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's a tricky request (or request for a suggestion on how to solve):
>
> In DC we've been running these import sprints. shp-to-osm is now
> centerpiece in presenting users with baked OSM files which they just
> have to check manually against the data and import.
>
> Taking a simple example, I might have a file with a few hundred points.
>
> Ideally what I'd like to do is give a user a managable chunk of work.
>
> So, you may think "Just set the max nodes per file to something small, say
> 10".
>
> The caviot is twofold:
>
> 1) That usually works but I can't guarantee that the nodes will be
> close to one another. It'd be better to have bounding boxes, rather
> than counts.
>
> 2) Nodes counts don't work when we're working with ways or relations.
>
>
> Thoughts? Maybe some magic I can feed to QGIS to pre-process the data?
>
> - Serge
>
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