[OSM-newbies] Uploading GIS data to OSM?

[Thomas Meller]

Ciao Enzo,

we had the case in Switzerland.
The Kanton Solothurn supplied it's mapping data and imported into OSM in September/October.
The result was annoying for the importer. Ther were mistakes, the ways did not connect to existing nodes nor to each other, a lot of data edited manually was overlaid by the imported data.
The thread on the talk-de list was unfriendly.

I think Horst could have had more fun if he'd got into contact with someone more experienced.
All in all it was frustrating for him - which was completely unnecessary.
Read this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct

If you like to get in touch with him, write a message to hdus.
He used the shp2osm.pl and found that it was not perfectly fit for the job.

Have Fun!

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:40:09 +0800
> Von: "Enzo Losantas" <joselorenzo at gmail.com>
> An: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-newbies] Uploading GIS data to OSM?

> Thanks for the heads up guys! im just trying to try different things if
> this
> can be done...
> 
> @David Carmean - yes, im hoping to do this seamlessly (if possible?) with
> shapefiles, mostly .shp, .dbf, .shx, etc....
> is this new tool by Ian is already in near completion? Where can i get
> more
> info on this?
> 
> @Thomas Meller - yes, i would like to do a mass data import. is this too
> dangerous?
> 
> @Claudius Henrichs - about the process you suggested:
> *1. Make sure that the data source licence is compatible with submitting
> it to OSM
> 2. Use GPSBabel ( http://www.gpsbabel.org ) to convert the data to GPX.
> 3. Open it in JOSM ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de ), check that
> everything is okay and finally...
> 4. upload it to OSM database*
> i am currently confused about step 1, kindly explain more on that? what do
> you mean about data source licence compatibility?
> 
> > Can this be done? If i have GIS data (long, lat, x_coord, y_coord, etc)
> with
> > me, and i want to transport it into the OSM database, how do i go about
> > this?
> 
> Enzo, what kind of GIS data, and in particular, which file format do you
> have
> available?
> 
> Keeping in mind another poster's caution about the danger and complexity
> of
> bulk imports, there is a new tool under development by Ian Dees which
> converts
> ESRI Shapefiles to OSM.  This java shp2osm has rules to map the SHP
> attributes
> to OSM tags.

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