[Imports] [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[Paul Norman]

> From: Maury Markowitz [mailto:maury.markowitz at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:50 PM
> To: imports at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Imports] [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist
> 
> 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.

https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/filter/merge-ways/
merge-ways.pl is the one I'm aware of.

I haven't had a chance to use it and it doesn't have a GUI

https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/subversion/applications/utils/import/
OsmGlommer is another I found looking through the mailing list archives, but
I don't know if it works or compiles or anything about it.