[OSM-talk] importing shapefile data to OSM

[Russ Nelson]

John Callahan writes:
 > Something I'm missing, once the data is in osm format, how do I get it 
 > into OSM?   Can I continue to edit the osm manually, such as with a 
 > background image/WMS service?   Is this where "importing" turns into 
 > "editing" and I should use JOSM, etc...?

I've had good success in loading the data into JOSM first.  That way I
can look at the data in context, to see how it will appear before
uploading.  You can either load the .osm file into JOSM and then
download from OSM into that layer, or you can download first, open the
file, and merge the layers (right-click in the layer window).

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