His Stefan Nice hack! But Shapefile remains an oldtimer with more drawbacks than limited field names; see [1]. GeoJSON (ascii) and GeoPackages (binary) are formats which are more suited for the job. I still have hope that JOSM will be able to read those vector formats too.
:Stefan [1] http://giswiki.hsr.ch/Shapefile 2016-03-20 19:29 GMT+01:00 Stefan Baebler <stefan.baeb...@gmail.com>: > Hi! > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I of course know Shapefiles but they are deprecated because e.g. they >> cut-off field names at 10 chars. GeoJSON or GeoPackage are better >> alternatives. > > > For RABA-KGZ landuse import in Slovenia we pushed the-10 character limit in > shapefiles / dbf to 11 characters and even inserted special characters > (colons) in field name (to allow us to have "source:date" tag) by altering > the binary data using bbe (sed-like binary block editor) as the last step of > data preparation: > bbe -e "s/SOURCEDATE\x00/source:date/" source.dbf -o target.dbf > > JOSM reads it nicely using OpenData plugin, as well as QGIS and other > editors. > > Full example and context can be seen at > https://github.com/stefanb/RabaSplitForOSM/blob/master/makeOneSplitExplode.sh#L94 > > Example shapefiles can be seen (in browser and in JOSM) at > http://raba.openstreetmap.si > > best regards, > Stefan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk