[Talk-ca] ogr2osm problems

[Tyler Gunn]

I haven't run into this before myself, but I suspect that the
character encoding for the boundaries files you're dealing with must
be something other than UTF-8.  The french characters are likely
causing issues.  Try opening up the file in Quantum GIS as a vector
layer, and then do a "Save as" for that layer.  Ensure you choose
UTF-8 when you save the layer.

Tyler

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Sam Dyck <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been working with ogr2osm to convert shapefiles from MLI to
> replace Sam Vekemans' Geobase imports of out of date provincial park
> boundaries. Running the script gives me this error.
> "Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 783, in <module>
>    w.element("tag", k=tagKey.decode("utf-8"), v=tagValue.decode("utf-8"))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
>    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1:
> invalid continuation byte"
>
> JOSM gave me an error when I tried to open the file, I opened the file
> in nano and found some tags not closed. Attempted to clean up the
> file, but JOSM told me that file had no data. The shapefile itself is
> fine, any ideas?
>
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