Hi Thomas, Great to see that new tools pop up! It seems like you've done a solid job. I haven't been able to test your program yet, but I've looked slightly at the code. That's what's so great with the open source spirit - alternatives pop up - both giving users many options and also facilitates learning both for the developer and the users.
I've been using sosi2osm a lot, and I'm very curious to know what you find incomplete with it, because to me it feels quite complete. It does the job it says it does - and it does it fast - in the true Unix spirit. :p But now as alternatives appear, I will have to evaluate which tool is the best for the job (although there's a threshold for me to switch since I already have quite a bit of "infrastructure" using sosi2osm) Keep up the good work! Best regards, Ruben 2015-01-11 1:24 GMT+01:00 Thomas Weidner <[email protected]>: > TL;DR: yet another tool for converting .sos to .osm available under > https://github.com/thomas001/jsosiosm > > Hello everybody, > > first, sorry for writing in English here, but I do not speak any > Norwegian. Because I was a bit dissatisfied with the available OSM data > available for Norway (exactly the hiking path we wanted to take was not > in the maps!), I started to look for other free maps. I stumbled across > the free map data available from kartverket. Of cause, neither there > bitmap maps nor their map webpage was really useful. So I wanted to use > their vector data for my hiking purposes. There seemed to be no good > tool to convert SOSI files to OSM (yes there is sosi2osm, but it seemed > incomplete...why didn't I work on sosi2osm? good question...), so I > started writing a new tool as hobby project. This tool is now pretty > usable and understands nearly all information available in the freely > available "N50" map data. I created some nice maps of the area around > Ålesund for my Garmin GPS using it. :-) > > You can have a look at the source (and get a precompiled .jar file) at > https://github.com/thomas001/jsosiosm. > > The mapping community also wants to import the N50 data into the > official OSM database, maybe this tool is helpful. > > Please feel free to post your ideas about my project. > > - Thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > kart mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/kart > _______________________________________________ kart mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/kart
