[Imports] [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:59 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Ian Dees wrote:
> > I think this is a great first step towards a "merging/importing 
> > toolkit". A shapefile reading and rendering plugin for JOSM would be 
> > extremely nice to have and was the original intention of my shp-to-osm code.
> 
> ... as long as we make absolutely sure nobody can simply hit "load 
> shape" and then "upload to OSM". The thing I like about Potlatch is that 
> the mapper must (!) copy each element individually. 

Yeah, for sure.  It's _meant_ to be a manual, tedious, and
straightforward.

Ian, let me know if you need some testing or feedback.  I've hacked on a
couple of JOSM plugins and I'm happy to help out a bit.

-- Dave