[Talk-us] Uploading Shapefiles to OSM

[Dale Puch]

Sam Vekemans has done quite a bit lately
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Acrosscanadatrails for his
activities.
I have been working on a process for myself as well
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Dalep for more details.

Take a look at shp-to-osm for the easiest way to get shape files into osm
format, then upload with JOSM, or the bulk uploader script.  Edit the rules,
and you should have your data pretty well tagged right out of the converter.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp2osm

Dale

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Spencer Riddile <riddile_spencer at yahoo.com
> wrote:

>
> I've been researching ways to upload public domain shapefiles to OSM.  Is
> there anyone experienced doing this?  Two examples of shapefiles I would
> like to upload include bus stops (points) and building footprints
> (polygons).
>
> Regarding uploading a points shapefile . . could I convert that to either a
> csv or gpx file and upload?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Spencer
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
> To: Spencer Riddile <riddile_spencer at yahoo.com>
> Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:17:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:38:03AM -0800, Spencer Riddile wrote:
> > Christopher,
> >
> > I sent an email to the GIS Coordinator of Blacksburg to check whether the
> data is public domain.
> >
> > Cool!  Do you have your own hosted version of OSM and that is how you
> were able to add the buildings?  If I get permission to upload those other
> layers, what method do you recommend?
>
> Nope. What I've done is:
> * Set up Mapnik + OGC Server to serve a WMS.
> * Opened qgis, a Desktop GIS Client.
> * Added the OSM WMS
> * Opened the map properties, checked the 'enable on the fly
>   transformation' checkbox
> * Added the blacksburg, va "Buildings" layer.
> * Export to PNG.
>
> (One of the things that people tned to fail to take into account in OSM
> is that there are pretty great GIS visualization tools out there
> already...)
>
> Using OSM tools, I'd recommend the 'polyshp2osm' tool in
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/shp2osm/ , but
> you'll need some technical expertise to manage the conversion and the
> upload. If you don't have any, there may be other people on this list
> who could help with conversion and managing the upload.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
>
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