[Imports] Shp2OSM : various questions

[Emilie Laffray]

Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl
> <mailto:ldp at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Emilie Laffray wrote:
>
>     > The node merging step was done with a Java program, just after the
>     > generation of the OSM file. The shapefile that we were getting were
>     > shapefiles built out of the database that we sorted. I really
>     need to
>     > finish the write up about the Corine Import.
>
>     Okay. I had already written some node merging perl code before,
>     when the
>     validator node merging in JOSM still was excruciatingly slow at medium
>     to large datasets. That was an increase in runtime of about 4 hours in
>     JOSM to 5 seconds in perl, in my first case.
>
>  
> Is that 'validator' run AFTER the file has been converted? or  during
> the process??
>
>
>     So, what did I miss in the svn vs. your tweaked version of
>     polyshp2osm? :)
>
>
> And Ian,
> I (think) it's Christopher Schmidt, according to the blog.  As i think
> that the original shp2osm was also created by him (but now it's all a
> blur as many others have made derivatives of it :)
>
> http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/354/polyshp2osm/
>
> Anyway, We should hold a Skype conference about this topic.
> there is also http://tinychat.com/  which looks pritty easy to setup. 
> Using 'VHCapture' it's possable to share whats going on on your screen
> (instead of the camera video).  This way, people can demoe what they
> are talking about.
> (i'll be hosting a uStream.tv broadcast to test it out)
>
> I'm happy to host it. Skype 'samvekemans'
>
> Hows sunday nov 22nd at noon PST (3pm EST) .. and 8 or 9pm Europe Time?
Fine to me. Yup Christopher created the initial version.

Emilie Laffray

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