Hi all, I'd recommend having a look at this automated road selection process before hand selecting features to import : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BMO#Differential_import
If needed, I can provide help, since I'm the one who wrote the page. F. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
