<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>The osm2shp application is now updated so that one column in the dbf file is created for each tag in the input OSM data.<br><br>This does raise a question. The generated dbf files seem quite large, as there are a large number of columns which are redundant for most data. However, this might not matter too much as the .dbf can be compressed to a fraction of the size. The alternative would be to define a set of standard POI types with mappings to OSM tags. What do people think are best?<br><br>Nick</div></div><br>
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