Thats great, good work! On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Based on Andrew Guertin's work for UVM I have released a new version of > ogr2osm > It can be found at https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm > > Improvements and bug fixes over the previous version include > > - MultiLineStrings are broken up into multiple LineStrings > - More readable raw XML > - Support for keys or values which require escaping in the XML > - upload=false is set by default to help prevent accidental uploads > - Support for shapefile directories > - Significant speed improvements when dealing with data sources where > multiple geometries share points in common. What used to take hours now > takes minutes. > > Installation instructions can be found at > https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm#installation > > ogr2osm has three main advantages over other tools that can convert > shapefiles > - It handles the reprojection for you > - It can deal with shapefile directories which is what gdal uses to handle > multiple layers with shapefiles > - It accepts a python function for converting from datasource tagging to > OSM > tagging, allowing you to use more complicated logic to come up with better > OSM tagging > > As always, potential importers are reminded about the import guidelines. > ogr2osm allows you to write a good conversion to OSM tagging. It doesn't do > the rest of the work for you and it won't contact the community before > importing for you. You still have to do all of these yourself. > > If anyone has good well-commented examples of translations files I welcome > pull requests against https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm-translations > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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