Hi Amrit,<div><br></div><div>The guys from geofabrik said they used osm2shp <a href="http://code.google.com/p/osm2shp/">http://code.google.com/p/osm2shp/</a> to extract shape files from openstreetmap data.</div><div>Since they have pretty good shape file extracts, I hope the tool could be of good help.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:58 AM, amrit karmacharya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amrit.im@gmail.com" target="_blank">amrit.im@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
we have an ,osm data in which we have used some tags that we defined ourselves like, age, roof_type, roof_slope . we want to convert this file to shapefile, in which the roof_type tag appears as a column name and its values as attributes.<div>
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