[talk-au] South Australia Suburb Boundries

Daniel O'Connor daniel.oconnor at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 01:23:54 UTC 2013


Hrm, this email got filtered I think due to the attachments.

On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> Did the bits to produce .osm files (again on github); suitable to open up
> and view in JOSM.
>
> I spot checked two areas near me that I know well, and the accuracy is
> pretty high.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/241675341
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/241667279
>
> I guess this discussion probably does want to head over to the imports
> list shortly.
>
> Any volunteers to help write up a fairly complete plan? I really don't
> fancy doing ~3000 suburb boundaries one by one in JOSM and checking them
> all myself; on top of doing all of the writeups/status updates/etc.
> Also, I have overseas travel in the coming weeks; so am likely to vanish
> half way through the conversation unless there's at least one other mapper
> with ownership.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Plan_Outline
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'daniel.oconnor at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> I did look through a few of the existing tools; but most fell into the
>> too hard basket. In the end, manually doing it via QGIS and exporting into
>> the right projection was fairly easy.
>>
>> I've pushed to github what I've done; which is produce geojson & kml
>> serializations of it - I had assumed geojson.io would let me export
>> easily to OSM, but unfortunately that's not the case.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> https://github.com/CloCkWeRX/data.sa.gov.au-suburb-boundaries/blob/master/suburbs/suburbs_0.geojson
>>
>> Repo:
>> https://github.com/CloCkWeRX/data.sa.gov.au-suburb-boundaries/
>>
>> Anyway, I'm more or less going to stop there, unless someone wants to do
>> a quick bit of geojson -> osm; with the appropriate tagging and shoot in a
>> pull request or two - I'll let others shepard it through the import process
>> and de-duplication.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 6 October 2013 18:25, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'penorman at mac.com');>>
>>> wrote:
>>> > There are numerous tools for converting from shapefiles to .osm. Both
>>> > shp-to-osm and ogr2osm work and you can find more info on the wiki.
>>>
>>> ogr2ogr v1.10 can also do it I believe.
>>>
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