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From OSM to shape. Parsing problem

I'm working at OpenStreetMap project for android at the moment. I want to retrieve OSM data from my app(nodes, markers and paths) and convert it to shape file (.shp, .dbf and .shx). Later, I'll load ...
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MapInfo8.0 is not letting me edit layers imported from the server? [duplicate]

I have imported 4 layerts from my server for use in MapInfo, when i went to edit these layers the edit tool for each of these layers is grey and non accessible. Any suggestions would be greatly ...
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Kartograph Open Street Maps

Firstly, congratulations to Gregor Aisch for creating such a wonderful library, thank you! I am having a little trouble rendering an svg from some osm data. I downloaded the Sweden transportation ...
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Saving part of OSM shapefile in QGIS as GeoJSON strips 'name' field to 25 characters long

I want to copy part of OSM data in ESRI Shapefile (downloaded from http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/ukraine.html ) and save in in GeoJSON to style later in Tilemill. After saving, I see that ...
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How to convert OSM data to a projected Coordinate system

What is the easiest way to get OSM data into a shapefile projected data format for QGIS? Sounds simple but I've run into problems with this before.
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How to reproject this vector layer?

I have a dxf file and use this tool to convert it to shapefile. Then I apply some affine transformations and get a shapefile that does not fit the shapefiles downloaded from osm (EPSG:4326). I know ...
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What can go wrong in UTM to WGS1984 conversion (shifted data)

I try to convert .shp files to OSM data with shp2osm and ogr2osm but the output data is shifted. Semi-Cross-Posting Warning: I have already asked a questions on the OSM help site, but this questions ...
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Is there a recipe for large shape files to be used in an Android App?

I am very new to GIS and I am diving into cartography and mapping because of an Android App that I am currently developing. I want to display environmental data, more precisely noise pollution data on ...
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Is it possible to display filtered results on OpenStreetMap?

is it possible to goto www.openstreetmap.org and do a search for a place like Auckland (New Zealand) or Melbourne (Australia) -but- only show Cities or Neighbourhoods or Suburbs? I understand that ...
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Generating tiles for osm/esri shapefiles

I've generated tiles for OpenStreetMap .OSM files using Maperitive and quickly consumed them with leaflet (with no tile cache yet). I'm now looking for the right and simple way to to that also with ...
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Conflate (merge) private shapefile data with OSM data

Background Downloaded Alberta OSM data from Geofabrik and have it running on a private Linux server using PostgreSQL 9.1, PostGIS 2.0, Mapnik 2.1.0, osm2pgsql, Apache 2, mod_tile, renderd, and ...
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How to display places names when using Quantum GIS and shapefiles?

I am new to the world of geo systems. What I would like to do is displaying some information on a map for given regions. I downloaded shape files from cloud made web site and load layers using ...
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How to fix Graphserver warning “osmdb has no edges!”?

I'm really new to GIS. I have some shapefiles data that I'm trying to import in graphserver. I'm doing: gs_osmdb_compile output3.osm output3.osmdb And the result is: WARNING: osmdb has no edges!. ...
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How to load OSM data into PostGIS preserving all Tags?

I am new to the field of GIS and am trying to view source tags in OSM. I have downloaded the shapefiles from http://downloads.cloudmade.com and have loaded them into Postgres. When I view the data, I ...
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Shape file for North America

list! Could you please help me. I need the coastline shape file of North America, something like this http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata I used it for geoserver+postgis with osm sld-tyles like the ...
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Cutting up a shape file into smaller parts

I've downloaded the 350MB coastline shape file from Openstreetmap, but I really would like to work with a small part of them, is there a way to generate a shapefile of a small area. I'm using MacOSX ...