[Imports] A new ogr2osm version

[Andrew Guertin]

Hooray!

--Andrew

P.S.: It has a readme. :o

On 04/30/2012 03:36 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> Based on Andrew Guertin's work for UVM I have released a new version of
> ogr2osm
> It can be found at https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm
> 
> Improvements and bug fixes over the previous version include
> 
> - MultiLineStrings are broken up into multiple LineStrings
> - More readable raw XML
> - Support for keys or values which require escaping in the XML
> - upload=false is set by default to help prevent accidental uploads
> - Support for shapefile directories
> - Significant speed improvements when dealing with data sources where
> multiple geometries share points in common. What used to take hours now
> takes minutes.
> 
> Installation instructions can be found at
> https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm#installation
> 
> ogr2osm has three main advantages over other tools that can convert
> shapefiles
> - It handles the reprojection for you
> - It can deal with shapefile directories which is what gdal uses to handle
> multiple layers with shapefiles
> - It accepts a python function for converting from datasource tagging to OSM
> tagging, allowing you to use more complicated logic to come up with better
> OSM tagging
> 
> As always, potential importers are reminded about the import guidelines.
> ogr2osm allows you to write a good conversion to OSM tagging. It doesn't do
> the rest of the work for you and it won't contact the community before
> importing for you. You still have to do all of these yourself.
> 
> If anyone has good well-commented examples of translations files I welcome
> pull requests against https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm-translations
> 
> 
> 
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