[OSM-dev] Database-manipulation without PostGIS

[Shaun McDonald]

On 4 Apr 2010, at 17:21, Claudius wrote:

> There's this user in Iran who changed name-tags for some cities from the 
> farsi script (the one used in the country) to the latin transcript 
> because his Garmin PNA doesn't have unicode support.
> I'd like to help him get a usable Garmin map for Iran without 
> manipulating the base OSM database by copying name:en to name in an Iran 
> excerpt before running it through mkgmap.
> 
> I'd love to do that without setting up a full PostGIS server by using 
> some osmosis-magic on the Iran.osm excerpt [1] but I guess that's not 
> doable from what I read on the osmosis wikie [2]. Any ideas or do I have 
> to set up PostGIS?

Take a look at the TagTransform plugin for Osmosis:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/TagTransform

Shaun