[OSM-talk] Converting .osm file into shape file or mapinfo table

[Hermann Peifer]

Below is what I would do on my MacBook. More info at 
http://www.gdal.org/drv_osm.html

Hermann

$ wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/liechtenstein-latest.osm.pbf
$ mkdir outfiles
$ ogr2ogr outfiles/ liechtenstein-latest.osm.pbf
$ ls -1 outfiles/
lines.dbf
lines.prj
lines.shp
lines.shx
multilinestrings.dbf
multilinestrings.prj
multilinestrings.shp
multilinestrings.shx
multipolygons.dbf
multipolygons.prj
multipolygons.shp
multipolygons.shx
points.dbf
points.prj
points.shp
points.shx


On 2014-05-27 3:34, mick wrote:
> After a few months break from mapping I'm having dificulty converting .osm files into mapinfo tables. Before the break I could import the .osm into qgis then export is as needed but now Qgis wont do this.
>
> With the old wiki I could find a section that listed and described a number of tools for various manipulations of osm data, this seems to be missing or moved to somewhere not directly accessable from the wiki.
>
> Could someone help this old fool find it again please.
>
> mik
>