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

[Kristian Thy]

On Fri, Dec 22, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> >> 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.

Yes, and if you incorporate it into the OGR library you would be able to
have that as well. Making a OSM-to-<whatever> lib becomes a one-to-many
conversion library. Incorporating it into OGR gives you a many-to-many
conversion library.
 
\\kristian
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