Thanks for the heads up guys! im just trying to try different things if this can be done...<br><br>@David Carmean - yes, im hoping to do this seamlessly (if possible?) with shapefiles, mostly .shp, .dbf, .shx, etc.... <br>
is this new tool by Ian is already in near completion? Where can i get more info on this?<br><br>@Thomas Meller - yes, i would like to do a mass data import. is this too dangerous?<br><br>@Claudius Henrichs - about the process you suggested:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><i>1. Make sure that the data source licence is compatible with submitting<br>
it to OSM<br>
2. Use GPSBabel ( <a href="http://www.gpsbabel.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gpsbabel.org</a> ) to convert the data to GPX.<br>
3. Open it in JOSM ( <a href="http://josm.openstreetmap.de/" target="_blank">http://josm.openstreetmap.de</a> ), check that<br>
everything is okay and finally...<br>
4. upload it to OSM database</i><br></div>i am currently confused about step 1, kindly explain more on that? what do you mean about data source licence compatibility?<br><br>> Can this be done? If i have GIS data (long, lat, x_coord, y_coord, etc) with<br>
> me, and i want to transport it into the OSM database, how do i go about<br>
> this?<br>
<br>
Enzo, what kind of GIS data, and in particular, which file format do you have<br>
available?<br>
<br>
Keeping in mind another poster's caution about the danger and complexity of<br>
bulk imports, there is a new tool under development by Ian Dees which converts<br>
ESRI Shapefiles to OSM. This java shp2osm has rules to map the SHP attributes<br>
to OSM tags.<br>
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