[Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

[Paul Norman]

I prefer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm to do the conversions.
To convert you have to write a python function that maps the shapefile
tagging to osm tagging. This is not technically very hard, but mapping to
osm tags is very easy to get wrong.

If you're using Windows, I'd suggest using VirtualBox and Ubuntu to run it. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueldyck at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 PM
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries
> 
> Hi Everyone
> 
> The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
> and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
> boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
> Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
> Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
> would I best do this?
> 
> Sam Dyck
> 
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