I'd suggest doing a conversion and posting a .osm file somewhere so we can see the proposed tagging.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 7:40 PM > To: Paul Norman > Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries > > I'm using an Ubuntu derived distro, so I should be good. Tyler converted > the MLI building data and has been importing it into OSM already. I've > read thought the terms, do I need to clear a import with someone? > > Sam > > > > On 11-03-25 03:32 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > > I prefer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm to do the > conversions. > > To convert you have to write a python function that maps the shapefile > > tagging to osm tagging. This is not technically very hard, but mapping > > to osm tags is very easy to get wrong. > > > > If you're using Windows, I'd suggest using VirtualBox and Ubuntu to > run it. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 PM > >> To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > >> Subject: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries > >> > >> Hi Everyone > >> > >> The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly > >> inaccurate and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba > >> offers good boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the > >> Manitoba Lands Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never > >> converted Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all > >> really). How would I best do this? > >> > >> Sam Dyck > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-ca mailing list > >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca