[OSM-talk] Easiest way to export specific data for GIS usage

[Patrick Weber]

Hi

I am interested in getting out of OSM the whole London Tube/DLR/Tram 
Station Network. I understand this dataset is fairly complete, and as 
TFL are a *difficult* for data sharing this could be my saviour.

I need to get the OSM data somehow into my GIS software , Manifold. Now, 
I only have a very basic knowledge of OSM data exporting, and am stuck 
as it seems that OSM uses a custom XML format for which I dont know any 
converters that could bring it into a GIS format such as a shp file.

Can someone give me a quick dummies guide to extracting data from OSM 
(ideally only the relevant datasets) and how to convert to shp (or some 
other alternative format my GIS will digest).

Cheers

Patrick
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