[Imports] [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[Maury Markowitz]

On 2012-10-19, at 4:29 PM, Paul Norman wrote:

>> Quick question, last I worked with the tool I had to "glom" the ways
>> (combine ways with identical tags) with another tool after processing
>> with ogr2osm; does ogr2osm currently do this somewhere after
>> filterTags()? I know my county likes to split streets at intersections
>> to give each segment a unique ID, and the data is unusable unless it's
>> been glommed.
> 
> I've considered adding this to ogr2osm and decided against it for a few
> reasons
> 
> * There are existing tools that glom ways

I believe this is the concern I'm trying to solve as well, for Canadian data from the CanVec database.

Perhaps I could be so bold to ask for pointers to a few of these tools?

I tried the existing GUI tools, but I couldn't get anywhere.