[OSM-dev] DXF to OSM - was [OSM-newbies] uploading prepared data

[MilesTogoe]

Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> On 29 Feb 2008, at 09:32, Andy Robinson ((blackadder)) wrote:
>
>   
>> Jason Reid wrote:
>>     
>>> Sent: 29 February 2008 4:51 AM
>>> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>>> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] uploading prepared data
>>>
>>> Andrew Harris wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I am wondering how to upload substantial chunks of prepared data.
>>>>
>>>> I work for a university and hope to get access to the building
>>>> outlines and data from our centrally managed buildings database.  
>>>> What
>>>> is my best way of loading this data into OSM? - Do I convert it to
>>>> gpx, open it in josm and upload? Is it that simple?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew Harris
>>>> 37.7638°S 144.9411°E
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Depending on the format, the best option would be to convert it to  
>>> our
>>> XML schema (generally fairly easy if its shapefiles or gml as theres
>>> been tools written for other imports) then upload that.
>>>
>>>       
>> On a related matter (hence posted to dev) I know I have some CAD  
>> files that
>> have data in them that I could use in OSM. The CAD data won’t mesh  
>> with the
>> nodes and ways format of OSM but it wouldn’t be too difficult to  
>> extract
>> just layers from the CAD that would be a reasonable match. Are  
>> there any
>> tools for converting say dxf to get data into OSM?
>>     
>
>
> DXF -> SHP- > OSM
>   
I'm not sure where this translation lib is - open source ?  there was a 
GSoC project in Inkscape 2 yrs back that didn't work out well but some 
of the code for DXF <-> SVG got posted in the SVN if someone wants to 
hack on it and clean it up.