[OSM-talk] Converting polygon to OSM way?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Simon Wood wrote:
>> It's very straightforward.  Just needs a program to take the one file  
>> format and turn it into a different file format.  Just create a bunch  
>> of new nodes, connect them together with a way, then add the  
>> appropriate metadata for your renderer.  Number the nodes and ways  
>> with negative numbers.
> 
> Yes, it relatively easy... I'm just lazy and wondered if it had been done already

It's been done already but only for simple polygons without holes, it is 
in svn under applications/utils/osm-extract/polygons/poly2osm.pl (and 
osm2poly.pl).

Bye
Frederik