[OSM-talk] HowTo : Import from .shp (ESRI) (or convert to .osm )

[Simone Cortesi]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Steven Le Roux <steven at le-roux.info> wrote:

> I am looking for experience from guys who have already imported datas
> just like these.
>
> I have shapefiles with both POI (red light, recyble bin,etc...) and
> polygon datas (parking, school, building, landuse...).
>
> Files are binary files... I could convert to csv, and make a script,
> but I guess there are already solutions being...

You can use the excellent Python script by Christopher Schmidt

http://crschmidt.net/blog/354/polyshp2osm/

-S