[OSM-talk] ESRI Shapefiles to OSM?

[Bone Killian]

Hi Keith.  I'm aware of the TIGER import. The data I'm looking at is 
actually land use data.  I am trying to import State forests, Nature 
Preserves and parks.  I don't think the TIGER data includes these.

I'll take a look at those scripts and see what I can do.

Thanks,
Bone

Keith Ng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there are other people who can answer your question much 
> better, but I'll try anyway. From what I can see from OSM currently, 
> there are some data in Pennsylvania now. (I am not sure, my world 
> geography isn't that good). So, I assume that TIGER data is being 
> uploaded for that state. Status for TIGER upload:
> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/stats.html 
> <http://dev.openstreetmap.org/%7Edaveh/tiger/stats.html>
>
> Coincidentally, from TIGER website, it says that they are going to 
> release the 2007 version in shapefile data, just so you know:
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp.html
>
> Thus, current TIGER uploading do not use shapefile (I think). Of the 
> script I know of, coast_josm.pl is one that transform PGS coastline 
> data to OSM data. The PGS data itself is in shapefile format. I assume 
> that with a little tweaking and hacking, one will be able to come up 
> with a script for transforming .shp to .osm.
>
> I believe the current AND data import script also upload shapefile 
> format to OSM. Again, a little tweaking and such script should be 
> available.
>
> Keith
>
>