[OSM-talk] Graphical generation of Garmin maps from OSM data

[Kristian Thy]

On Fri, Dec 22, Martin Spott wrote:
> you might consider to join forces, make one step ahead and write a
> driver for GDAL/OGR:
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org/ogr/
> 
> This toolset already implements almost every aspects of what you exect
> from a "babel" translator in the world of geographic vector data.

I'm firmly on your site here - making OGR OSM-aware would be of much
greater value than a standalone babel converter. Unfortunately, I value
my sanity too much to code in C/C++ ;)

My primary motivation for doing a separate conversion script was to do
some preprocessing - i.e. convert lakes into polygons instead of line
features, creating a separate "amenity" point layer and so on. If you do
an OGR plugin, I presume you'll only be able to access an OSM file as a
line feature? (I'm not totally up to speed on multigeometry classes,
though, so this may be wrong.)

\\kristian
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