[Talk-ca] Wiki fixes

[Ian Dees]

On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Sam Vekemans  
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyway,  a new page of shp-to-osm.jar needs to be created.

I would rather have people going to the Redmine site I have set up to  
ask questions and look for documentation. I can make a shp-to-osm wiki  
page on wiki.osm.org to point people in that direction.

> (the script that i use to make canvec2osm).  This is different than  
> the shp2osm.py script because the shp-to-osm.jar program just uses  
> windows,

Shp-to-osm uses java and can be run on any operating system (I run it  
with ubuntu and windows all the time).

> and requires simple editing of a RULES.txt file, where as the  
> shp2osm.py and shp2osm.pl script works on ibuntu (i don't know how  
> to use it) and through sorcery and magic, it is able to upload the  
> data directly to the OSM API, and pull data from the API, where this  
> little shp-to-osm.jar script cannot.

What does the shp2osm thing download from the API? If it's something  
that is useful fo someone then please file a feature request.