[mkgmap-dev] How to split polygons into boundary relations with common ways?

Tue Jan 24 15:58:21 GMT 2012

Don't know any software for osm files. But if you could create shape files first then there are 1 or 2 converters from shape to osm format which can create the relations and remove duplicate ways.

On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:55 AM, Marko Mäkelä wrote:

> This is somewhat off-topic for mkgmap, but I was thinking that perhaps 
> WanMil or someone else has worked on something similar.
> 
> I got some boundary data. I converted a tiny part of it from Spatialite 
> to *.osm polygons with a self-made Perl script. There were some errors 
> in the data, such as nodes very close to each other, or some boundary 
> had one point less than the adjacent boundary. I fixed these in JOSM, by 
> merging the too close nodes, or adding the missing nodes to boundaries.  
> Already this was a considerable amount of work, because JOSM seems to 
> lack a validator test for "nodes too close to each other" when they 
> belong to different ways.
> 
> Now, the next step would be to split these polygons (circular ways) to 
> boundary relations. Each polygon would have to be split to way segments, 
> and duplicate way segments should be removed. Then, relations should be 
> formed from the way segments for each area. Is there any software or 
> algorithm for doing this?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Marko
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