[OSM-newbies] Sync. of Shapefile and OSM

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 22:19:07 BST 2009


On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM, H.S.Rai<hardeep.rai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to have synchronization of OSM and shapefiles? Both
> bothway is not possible, which is easy and without loss of
> information?  OSM to shapefile or shapefile to OSM?

There are tools to convert from osm to shp and from shp to osm if
that's what you're after:

* http://code.google.com/p/osm2shp/
* http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/list_files/geo

If you want to do any sort of regular updates or bidirectional merging
between two changing datasets you're going to be dealing with problems
that are way beyond the scope of newbies@ though.




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