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At 09-05-2015 23:12 Saturday, Phil \(The Geek\) Wyatt wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors
This is the quickest way to get OSM data into QGIS
From: Springfield Harrison [ mailto:stellar...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2015 3:59 PM
To: john o'l; HOT
Subject: Re: [HOT] QGIS and OSM and..
Hello John,
I'm not up on the intricacies of the OSM database but could probably figure it out fairly easily if there is any documentation to be had. Or even if not. I'm quite familiar with Manifold GIS, used to work with ArcView and have recently acquired QGIS. Over the years, I have done lots of data import, export and translation.
If you can point me towards that helicopter landing pad data, I would be happy to have a look at it. I presume I would access the complete OSM database and then query to extract the helipad records.
I also am puzzled about the use of Google Earth. I don't propose to misappropriate their imagery or flog the resulting lists for commercial gain or sue them if a particular helipad turns out to be less than ideal. To me, it is just an excellent background for assessing terrain. I wonder if it can be coerced into loading post earthquake imagery?
Following on, how available is the file for the map of all the tiles used in the Tasking process? That would be very useful for working outside of OSM. I imagine all these files are online if I could just find the right address.
Thanks very much, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison
At 09-05-2015 19:26 Saturday, john o'l wrote:
Alas, the simple options that appeared to allow QGIS to make direct OSM uploads seem to have disappeared with updates over the past few years and I lack the technical chops to code an appropriate tool. Â
QGIS seems to prefer creating shape (SHP) files, and I found that copying and pasting an attribute table will create a text file (I believe tab delimited) of the format: POLYGON((longitude<space>latitude,longitude<space>latitude,...etc)) then attributes/tags. First question is whether anyone has or knows of an easy conversion/upload tool to get this data into OSM? The closest I found still would have had me manipulating python or XML -- I am sure no sensible people really want me to go down that road.Â
Getting to know QGIS has been a treat, by the way. It is great at extracting data from OSM and the imagery services associated with it. For folks having trouble with the free form nature of OSM, it allows sifting and structuring the data in a way that may be quite pleasing. I can't help but think Spring Harrison might enjoy extracting all the helicopter landing pads and leisure=common in earthquake hit areas and give them a thorough review, producing a shape or text file of his recommended choices.Â
It seems data generated by osm users contained within Google's kmls would be available as long as it was extracted? Surely putting something in an envelope doesn't render it the property of the envelope manufacturer...
Anyway, any help or non-coding recommendations would be appreciated!
Cheers,
John
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