[OSM-talk] Converting Shapefile to OSM

[Russ Phillips]

On Wed, November 21, 2007 1:24 pm, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

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

Thanks for that - I'll look at it when I get some time. I can't get my
head around perl, but I do know some Python, so I'm more likely to get
something useful out of a Python script. Luckily for me, the data is
really quite simple - it's *just* roads, and I'm told all roads outside of
Stanley (ie all the ones in this dataset) are unsurfaced, so I only need a
single set of tags.

> (And I'm sorry I didn't get back to you; I passed it off to someone who
> told me he would get to it 'right away' with manifold. You can see how
> well that worked.)

Don't worry about it, these things happen. Luckily I worked out how to do
it in GRASS. I'll add a page to the wiki on how to do that later.

Russ