[Talk-us] Uploading Shapefiles to OSM

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM, 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?
>

There seem to be two major applications to do what you're talking about:

- I wrote a Java application that reads in the shapefile and converts it to
OSM using a set of rules
   http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/show/geo
- Chris Schmidt wrote a python script that does a similar thing (but in
python)
   http://crschmidt.net/blog/354/polyshp2osm/

Both of us are quite responsive to questions about the tools if you ask on
the talk-us board.
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