[Talk-in] Transfer the data in the Election commision xml file into points on the map

[Pradeep B V]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Arunmozhi <aruntheguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently I downloaded  a xml file from the Election commision GIS data that
> provides accurate information about certain locations which is hard to come
> by from other resouces.See the example data from the xml file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> *-* <dataroot>
>  *-* <AC_LATLONG>
>  * * <ST_CODE>*S01*</ST_CODE>
>  * * <ST_NAME>*ANDHRA PRADESH*</ST_NAME>
>  * * <AC_NO>*259*</AC_NO>
>  * * <AC_NAME>*Sircilla*</AC_NAME>
>  * * <latitude>*84.6225571492*</latitude>
>  * * <longitude>*19.0244533588*</longitude>
>  * * </AC_LATLONG>
>
> It can be seen that the LAT and LONG are accurate to 10 digits of decimals
> which we cannot obtain from other sources.
>
> Is there any way to make these lat longs useful for mapping. Is there any
> script that could convert this file into some sort data that is
> understandable by JOSM editor.
>

by using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT you can convert this data to GPX
and then use it in JOSM.

- P
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