[GRASS-user] GRASS-module to import OSM-data

[Jannis Achstetter]

Hamish schrieb:
> [v.in.osm] (openstreetmap.org)
>
> Jannis Achstetter wrote:
>   
>> - You can let the script try to import "closed ways" as areas. There's
>> a little problem here:
>>     The script just checks, wether the first node of the first segment
>> (first means segment #1 of the way) and the last node of the last
>> segment (means segment with the highest number in that way) match.
>> This must be the case with closed ways but can occur with unordered
>> ways, too (Way: 3,4,5,1,2 for example). That's why "highway" and
>> "junction"-tagged ways are ignored at the area-check.
>>     
>
>
> Hi,
>
> what is a "closed way"? a series of segments forming a route?
> road-as-polygon?
>
>
> ??,
> Hamish
>   

Just found another very good link to explain stuff:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Data_Primitives

Jannis