JOSM can't read shape files, you will have to adapt this script <a href="http://boston.freemap.in/osm/files/mgis_to_osm.py">http://boston.freemap.in/osm/files/mgis_to_osm.py</a> to convert shapefiles to osm.<br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Patrick Weber <<a href="mailto:p.weber@ucl.ac.uk">p.weber@ucl.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi list<br>
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I have been mapping my home country Luxembourg for the past 6 months. I recently have been offered by another OSM user who works at the national road works agency (not shure about the translation but anyway), to get the national road network (all primary highways, trunk and motorways) imported into OSM. Apparently they are okay with it. Great News!<br>
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Now I am trying to figure out how this will work in practice, as we are not importing into a blank canvas, but a sizable bit of the road network has been done already. How can we merge the two datasets, and keep the best bits of both?<br>
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Also, whats the best procedure for the conversion. I suspect we will get the data as shapefiles. Can JOSM read shapefiles?<br>
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Thanks for helping us.<br>
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