[Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

[Samuel Dyck]

I'm using an Ubuntu derived distro, so I should be good. Tyler converted 
the MLI building data and has been importing it into OSM already. I've 
read thought the terms, do I need to clear a import with someone?

Sam



On 11-03-25 03:32 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> 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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