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

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Hi,

You need GDAL v. 1.10 and you can get it for Windows from
http://gisinternals.com/sdk/
After installation the osmconf.ini file will be in directory \bin\gdal-data.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

amrit karmacharya wrote:
> 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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