[gdal-dev] open street map data

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Nicholas,

OSM format has way too many tags. Also, it would just be a readonly driver.
Refer to the following links for some ways to export osm data to other
formats.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Export
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Converting_OSM_to_GML
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/export/

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:39 AM, <nicholas.g.lawrence at tmr.qld.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> open street map has a lot of data in an XML format. This format isn't
> listed amongst the compatible formats on
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html Is there any recommendations for
> how to translate osm files into shapefiles or mapinfo tables?
>
> Kind regards,
>
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