[Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

Fri May 30 02:12:02 UTC 2014

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:17:59PM -0800, Paul Norman wrote:
> You'll need to develop a translation for the shapefiles that converts 
> shapefile attributes to OSM tags, for use with ogr2osm or shp2osm.jar. 
> This is moderately technical.

I used JOSM to import the shapefiles and turn them into .osm files.  I went through and removed attributes that didn't make sense (which would be almost all of them) and added ones that did.  Everything appears to have a name and is either a school or a park (and contains appropriate attributes for that).

> When you've done that, post the .osm file somewhere and send a link 
> to the imports@ list for review.

I ended up splitting the data into two files.  The first[0] contains simple polygons that outline the plots of land and was somewhat easy to get fixed.  The second[1] contains all the multi-polygon shapes that I didn't want to deal with just yet.  There are only a handful of these areas so I'm not overly worried about them just yet.

Everything is sitting up on github[2] at the moment and are available for anyone to take a look at.  I'd appreciate feedback on this.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mappingdc/Anne-Arundel-imports/master/AA_parks.osm
[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mappingdc/Anne-Arundel-imports/master/AA_parks_multipolygons.osm
[2] https://github.com/mappingdc/Anne-Arundel-imports

Thanks!

- --Eric
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