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

[Nick Whitelegg]

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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++ ;)

Best of all I think would be to write it as a library. That way, the 
OSM-to-shape conversion could be incorporated into whatever application 
you want.

Nick