On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:55:35PM +0100, Gerd Petermann wrote:
I am not sure about your goal. do you mean that you want to evaluate the data in the shape file by creating an *.img with it?
I would like to import the equivalent of boundary=administrative relations from shape file(s) to mkgmap, for generating the address search index with accurate city or region boundaries. The boundary=administrative data for Finland in OSM is incomplete, and it would be quite a bit of work to import the recently freed official data to OSM.
I do not care that much if the boundaries are shown on the map. What I mostly care about is that streets will be associated with the correct region, city or suburb.
In the long term, I think that the boundary data does belong to OSM. So, if importing the boundaries in a different format is too complicated, I guess we will have to bite the bullet and import them to OSM.
Marko
Marko, that's quite easy. (from my point of view ;-))) You have to write your own BoundaryPreparer. All you have to do is 1. Load your data 2. For each boundary create a Boundary object. For a Boundary object you need: 1. The shape (as java.awt.geom.Area object) with Garmin coordinates 2. The OSM tags 3. Save each Boundary using the BoundarySaver.addBoundary method. 4. Call BoundarySaver.end() => That's it You receive extra points when you call BoundaryPreparer.workoutBoundaryRelations(boundsDirectory); after that :-) WanMil