[Talk-us] Fwd: Maps of State of Wisconsin, USA

[Alex Mauer]

Alan Millar wrote:
> I haven't looked at the Wisconsin data, but I did do a little
> experimentation with PDFs.  If the PDF contains a bitmap, you can extract
> it with any number of tools, but you're stuck with tracing.
> 
> If it contains vector data, you can start to do intersting things.  You
> can convert it to SVG using "pstoedit".  I experimented a little using
> pstoedit to create svg, and then started on a perl script to convert the
> SVG to an OSM file for JOSM.  It could be made to work for small areas
> where map projection would not be a problem.

It appears to contain vector data.