Arlindo Pereira <openstreetmap <at> arlindopereira.com> writes:
... > > Now, moving on to the second question: the largest shapefile > (Quadras.shp, with the streets and the blocks) has 68 MB, and after > conversion (and two hours later) it becomes a huge 416 MB .osm file, > and I can't open it with JOSM (ok, after half an hour it loads up on > the editor but I can't do anything because the program freezes). How > can I split it in smaller files for an easier edition? One possibility is to edit the shapefile with some GIS program like OpenJUMP or QGis, select features from a smaller area and save that part to a new shapefile. That way you could also select only some kind of features to import, or cut off those you do not want at all. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk