there is a couple programs already to convert shape files to osm format. a Java version is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp-to-osm.jar all you need is a table of attributes in the shape file and a corresponding list of osm tags. On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
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.
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