Ciao Enzo, we had the case in Switzerland. The Kanton Solothurn supplied it's mapping data and imported into OSM in September/October. The result was annoying for the importer. Ther were mistakes, the ways did not connect to existing nodes nor to each other, a lot of data edited manually was overlaid by the imported data. The thread on the talk-de list was unfriendly.
I think Horst could have had more fun if he'd got into contact with someone more experienced. All in all it was frustrating for him - which was completely unnecessary. Read this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct If you like to get in touch with him, write a message to hdus. He used the shp2osm.pl and found that it was not perfectly fit for the job. Have Fun! -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:40:09 +0800 > Von: "Enzo Losantas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [OSM-newbies] Uploading GIS data to OSM? > Thanks for the heads up guys! im just trying to try different things if > this > can be done... > > @David Carmean - yes, im hoping to do this seamlessly (if possible?) with > shapefiles, mostly .shp, .dbf, .shx, etc.... > is this new tool by Ian is already in near completion? Where can i get > more > info on this? > > @Thomas Meller - yes, i would like to do a mass data import. is this too > dangerous? > > @Claudius Henrichs - about the process you suggested: > *1. Make sure that the data source licence is compatible with submitting > it to OSM > 2. Use GPSBabel ( http://www.gpsbabel.org ) to convert the data to GPX. > 3. Open it in JOSM ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de ), check that > everything is okay and finally... > 4. upload it to OSM database* > i am currently confused about step 1, kindly explain more on that? what do > you mean about data source licence compatibility? > > > Can this be done? If i have GIS data (long, lat, x_coord, y_coord, etc) > with > > me, and i want to transport it into the OSM database, how do i go about > > this? > > Enzo, what kind of GIS data, and in particular, which file format do you > have > available? > > Keeping in mind another poster's caution about the danger and complexity > of > bulk imports, there is a new tool under development by Ian Dees which > converts > ESRI Shapefiles to OSM. This java shp2osm has rules to map the SHP > attributes > to OSM tags. -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
