There are numerous tools for converting from shapefiles to .osm. Both shp-to-osm and ogr2osm work and you can find more info on the wiki. The hard part is converting tags, which requires knowledge of OSM tagging. Additionally make sure to follow http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines, which includes consulting with the imports@ mailing list.
From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:daniel.ocon...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 10:45 PM Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] South Australia Suburb Boundries In order to make this a little bit easier, I've published a job on elance to convert the shp files to kml, osm. This should allow various folks from around here to load in data via JOSM. That'll let us check data as well prior to loading. Assuming someone picks it up; I'll publish the resutls, conversion scripts on github. https://www.elance.com/job/47684250/proposals?eventId=194330764
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