If you use QGIS, a way to create a .poly file for osmosis is through QGIS' OSM_POLY Export plugin. Simply load the shapefile and run the plugin.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a shapefile containing a fair number of polygons that I want to feed > into osmosis for cutting up an OSM data file. > osmosis takes .poly files for this purpose. > Is there a way to either convert a polygon shapefile to OSM poly format or > to achieve this some other way? Right now I'm thinking of importing the > entire (US) planet into PostGIS and cut it in the database. > This is for analysis purposes, not visualization. > Thanks! > -- > martijn van exel > schaaltreinen.nl > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
