[Talk-us] Geodatabase
Emilie Laffray
emilie.laffray at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 23:12:14 GMT 2009
McGuire, Matthew wrote:
>
> Has anyone had considered a Planet.osm à Geodatabase conversion that
> works the same as the osm2pgsql?
>
>
>
> The geodatabase standard is not published, but there is an XML
> transfer standard.
>
> http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.whitepapers.viewPaper&PID=43&MetaID=695
> <http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.whitepapers.viewPaper&PID=43&MetaID=695>
>
> The advantage of having this available is that there is a large
> community of map enthusiasts that are professionally committed to
> ArcGIS through their employment. Exposing them to OSM on their own
> terms will help expand our contributor base in the US.
>
I had a quick look at the document and I am not sure that it would
actually be trivial to implement such a tool. First, we would only be
able initially to build geometries. Also, based on my quick look, I
don't know how we would be coding all the parameters in the database.
Based on what I read, you need to have fixed fields to get it to work,
which is going against the strong variety of data found in OSM. You
would need to have something lossy like osm2pgsql to use. I don't find
this satisfying.
In addition, to use more functionalities like the road and junction
elements, you would need to build a tool way more complicated than
osm2pgsql. I am not convinced about that tool. Of course, if you were to
offer to code, that would be different :) Also, if you can convert a SHP
into that XML format, then you can easily do it from a postgis database.
Emilie Laffray
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