[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 39, Issue 54

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:30:51PM -0000, Russ Phillips wrote:
> >I attach a dxf file of the road network data along with a 10 kilometre
> >UTM zone 21 grid (Sapper Hill 1943 datum) and settlement names for
> >reference.
> 
> I'd say that's pretty unambiguous. Now, can someone write a dxf -> osm
> filter? I can e-mail the file to anyone that wants to work on it if that
> will help (it's around 200KB compressed, 840KB uncompressed). I don't want
> to put it on a publicly-accessible web site, since it hasn't been put into
> the public domain.

I wonder if the easiest way would be to convert it to a bitmap (possibly in
chunks) and then use this as a background in JOSM to trace over?

Depending on the complexity of the DXF it might be far more detailed than OSM
actaully needs (for example, are the roads represented by 1, 2 or 3 lines?)

Just an idea.

Thanks,

-- 
Matthew