[OSM-talk] osm2shp update, and dbf format

[Kristian Thy]

On Mon, Jan 01, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> This does raise a question. The generated dbf files seem quite large, as there
> are a large number of columns which are redundant for most data. However, this
> might not matter too much as the .dbf can be compressed to a fraction of the
> size. The alternative would be to define a set of standard POI types with
> mappings to OSM tags. What do people think are best?

I think the standard conversion should keep all data. Subsequent
massaging can be done to extract specific things of interest, create a
separate polygon shapefile etc. etc.

\\kristian
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