[Talk-GB] Power Lines

[Graham Jones]

Thanks Chris,
The wiki page gives nice instructions on how to convert the shapefile
content into OSM format, but it is the next stage I am wondering about - how
do you get that into OSM without risking messing something up.

I dare say that power lines are nice and easy because there were not many of
them in the database to start with, but woodlands are another matter.   If a
woodland is already in the database, you could delete it and replace it with
the OSM version, but if it shares nodes with other features that could be
difficult.

Does that filter and transfer to OSM have to be done manually (presumably
copy and paste in Josm?), or does someone have a way of checking if the
feature exists automatically, and leaving only the troublesome ones to do
manually?

Regards

Graham.

On 9 August 2010 20:56, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:

> Graham Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I see that someone has been busy importing Power Lines from OS OpenData in
>> my part of the world <
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.6341&lon=-1.2238&zoom=14&layers=M>.
>>
>> I wondered how it was done, and if they were thinking of doing woodlands
>> too, because we have lots of woods missing and it would be good to get them
>> added too - is anyone working on that?
>>
>>  There's a write up in the wiki which would help:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles
>
> As well as the wiki page I wrote wrote a a few blog entries about using the
> OS data in May this year including:
> http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2010/05/using-vectormap.html
>
> --
> Cheers, Chris
> user: chillly
>
>


-- 
Dr. Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK
email: grahamjones139 at gmail.com
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