[OSM-talk] upload from cvs - thanks

[Peppo Herney]

Hello Ævar,

thanks a bunch.

Peppo
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> Datum: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:44:31 +0000
> Von: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab at gmail.com>
> An: Peppo Herney <Peppo.Herney at gmx.de>
> CC: deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com, talk at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-talk] upload from cvs

> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Peppo Herney <Peppo.Herney at gmx.de> wrote:
> > thanks for the offer:
> >> Can you attach the file in a message to this list? Perhaps I (or
> >> someone else) can convert it for you.
> >
> > I also wouldn'd mind to learn how to convert this conveniently.
> > Please tell, how you converted afterwards.
> 
> Here's the converted file (too big for the 40 KB mailing list limit):
> http://u.nix.is/~avar/hutten.osm
> 
> To accomplish really simple tasks like these I usually use GNU Emacs
> keyboard macros[1], instead of say writing a short Perl script. The
> process is basically that I look at the first line and convert it
> manually, e.g. by changing:
> 
>    Aarbiwak SAC
> 
> to
> 
>   <tag k="name" v="Aarbiwak SAC"/>
> 
> Then I go to the next ";" to find the next thing, and convert that too,
> etc.
> 
> When I get to "8,152199642;46,55547325" I cut that out my seeking
> across ";" twice. Then I seek back and add that to the <node> part I
> added at the beginning, using query-replace to convert "," to ".".
> Finally I update the id="" with a numeric register[2].
> 
> Then I move my cursor to the next line and tell Emacs "hey, remember
> all that manual labour I did, please repeat that for the rest of the
> file". At which point it automatically converts the entire thing to
> what I've just attached (I only needed to add opening & closing <osm>
> tags at the beginning/end afterwards).
> 
> Here's the ad-hoc Emacs keyboard macro I used. It's basically a raw
> log of every keystroke I pressed and commands I issued during the
> above, so not very readable: http://paste.lisp.org/display/86987
> 
> All-in-all the whole process took around 3-4 minutes. Writing this
> E-Mail took much longer. I'd really recommend learning Emacs or a
> similarly powerful editor (I'm not aware of any) if you happen to do a
> lot of text editing that could be helped if it were
> automated/programmable.
> 
> 1.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Keyboard-Macros.html
> 2.
> http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-20.7/html_chapter/emacs_11.html#SEC71

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