[OSM-talk] JOSM plugin to import GeoJSON?

[Stefan Keller]

His Stefan

Nice hack!
But Shapefile remains an oldtimer with more drawbacks than limited
field names; see [1].
GeoJSON (ascii) and GeoPackages (binary) are formats which are more
suited for the job.
I still have hope that JOSM will be able to read those vector formats too.

:Stefan

[1] http://giswiki.hsr.ch/Shapefile


2016-03-20 19:29 GMT+01:00 Stefan Baebler <stefan.baebler at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I of course know Shapefiles but they are deprecated because e.g. they
>> cut-off field names at 10 chars. GeoJSON or GeoPackage are better
>> alternatives.
>
>
> For RABA-KGZ landuse import in Slovenia we pushed the-10 character limit in
> shapefiles / dbf to 11 characters and even inserted special characters
> (colons) in field name (to allow us to have "source:date" tag) by altering
> the binary data using bbe (sed-like binary block editor) as the last step of
> data preparation:
> bbe -e "s/SOURCEDATE\x00/source:date/" source.dbf -o target.dbf
>
> JOSM reads it nicely using OpenData plugin, as well as QGIS and other
> editors.
>
> Full example and context can be seen at
> https://github.com/stefanb/RabaSplitForOSM/blob/master/makeOneSplitExplode.sh#L94
>
> Example shapefiles can be seen (in browser and in JOSM) at
> http://raba.openstreetmap.si
>
> best regards,
> Stefan