[OSM-talk] Help to import Rio de Janeiro city data to OSM - misaligned shapefiles

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Arlindo Pereira <openstreetmap <at> arlindopereira.com> writes:

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> 
> Now, moving on to the second question: the largest shapefile
> (Quadras.shp, with the streets and the blocks) has 68 MB, and after
> conversion (and two hours later) it becomes a huge 416 MB .osm file,
> and I can't open it with JOSM (ok, after half an hour it loads up on
> the editor but I can't do anything because the program freezes). How
> can I split it in smaller files for an easier edition?

One possibility is to edit the shapefile with some GIS program like OpenJUMP or
QGis, select features from a smaller area and save that part to a new shapefile.
That way you could also select only some kind of features to import, or cut off
those you do not want at all.