[OSM-talk] ESRI Shapefiles to OSM?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:56:02AM -0400, Bone Killian wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find it anywhere.  
> I just found out that the Pennsylvania state government makes a lots of 
> public domain data available in the form of ESRI shaefiles.
> 
> Do we have a utility that will convert ESRI shapefiles into OSM format? 

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.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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