[Talk-ca] Is anybody able to import ESRI data into OSM?

[Kevin Michael Smith]

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 17:09 -0800, David Wetzel wrote:

> Is anybody able to import ESRI data into OSM?

> It is a lot of work to do this manually. Is there an converter?

There are a couple of conversion programs, shp2osm and ogr2osm.  Both
are plain command line tools that require you to develop a set of rules
for converting the data attached to each feature into a set of OSM
tags.  

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp2osm
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm

-- 
Kevin Michael Smith <smithkm at draconic.ca>
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