[Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Sat Mar 26 05:41:45 GMT 2011


I'd suggest doing a conversion and posting a .osm file somewhere so we can
see the proposed tagging. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueldyck at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 7:40 PM
> To: Paul Norman
> Cc: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries
> 
> 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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