[OSM-talk] Converting Shapefile to OSM

[Keith Ng]

Quoting a reply from Christopher Schmidt on the same subject last month:

"Doing it in general is hard. A couple different people have hacked together
different scripts. Some are in OSM SVN.

http://boston.freemap.in/osm/files/mgis_to_osm.py

is the one I've used."

Basically if you don't understand some kind of programming language, the
task is next to impossible. I think it would be better to get someone to
make a script specially for the data you have.

Regards,
Keith

On Nov 22, 2007 12:07 AM, Russ Phillips <russ at phillipsuk.org> wrote:
> I recently posted to the list about data that had been provided by the
> Falkland Islands government, in dxf format. I've managed to use grass to
> convert it into a shapefile, but I now need to turn it into a .osm file
> for upload.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can convert a shapefile into a .osm file? I
> thought I'd seen a script to do this, but I can't find one now. I tried to
> convert coast_josm.pl, but I don't understand perl, and I got nowhere.
>
> Russ
>
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