[OSM-dev] Is there a wrapper application for localosmtoshp application?

[amrit karmacharya]

The links to ogr2ogr pointed to mapserver. I have mapserver, but i can't
find the osmconf.ini file.

i have now installed FWTools 2.4.7 on windows 7 32 bit and i still can't
find that file.


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Why didn't you like the GDAL utility program ogr2ogr? The command to use
> for converting OSM points into a point shapefile is
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" osm_points.shp input.osm points
>
> If you want to change the field names you can use the following syntax
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" osm_points.shp input.osm
> -sql "select name as alias_name from points"
>
> Edit the osmconf.ini file for selecting the tags you want to include in
> the shapefile. Osmconf.ini is a plain text file and GDAL ships with a
> template which has helpful comments. Here is a snippet.
>
> # keys to report as OGR fields
> attributes=name,barrier,highway,ref,address,is_in,place,man_made
> # keys that, alone, are not significant enough to report a node as a OGR
> point
> unsignificant=created_by,converted_by,source,time,ele
> # keys that should NOT be reported in the "other_tags" field
> ignore=created_by,converted_by,source,time,ele,note,openGeoDB:,fixme,FIXME
> # uncomment to avoid creation of "other_tags" field
> #other_tags=no
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
> amrit karmacharya wrote:
> > I need to make shapefiles with custom tags from osm data. I have gone
> > through every method in shapefile wiki on osm.
> >
> > For me the best method is LocalOSMToSHP. It let's me define the file, the
> > tags I want and even create alais for column.
> >
> > The problem is the prog needs to be on same location as the osm file and
> > the rules file is not much configurable.
> >
> > Is there a more friendlier app with the same functions as localosmtoshp.
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>
>
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