On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 02:27:24PM -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
Right, ogr2osm should be one of them. I guess I will have to go back from osm to shape format and then try my luck with these converters.
osm2shp was good enough for my needs. I liked the simple configuration by editing some C functions. Then, ogr2osm processed the shape file.
Do you know if there is any shape file converter that would merge nearby nodes to a single OSM node id? In this data set, adjacent areas sometimes have nodes in almost the same position. This should be a problem in the original dataset and not a coordinate transformation artefact, because a transformation could map multiple points to one point, but not vice versa.
never found any good solution for merging points or simplify except Josm
I played with JOSM Validator. It did detect some (but not all) problems when I deleted the boundary relations and set highway=service on all lines. There might be some solution outside the OSM domain. The thread starter is the guy who converted the data set that I am processing: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.jump.devel/10457 Hopefully, this solution will help the import of other suburb boundaries. I am testing with the suburbs of my home town only. Best regards, Marko