Converting a relation into an Osmosis polygon file

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I'm trying to use the boundary of London as a bounding polygon for an osmembrane pipeline. How do I convert http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/175342 into something more like http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Polygon_Filter_File_Format so I can use it as the boundary polygon?

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I don't know if there is an easier way, but that is how I was doing:

With JOSM

File->Download an object, choose the type "relation" and give the id, uncheck "Download referents" and check "Download members"
select all objects (Ctrl+A) and unselect the admin_centre (London in your example)
copy the data (Ctr+C), create a new Layer (Ctrl+N) and paste your data (Ctrl+V)
remove all the tags
save the layer created in a .osm file (Ctrl+S)
Use osm2poly.pl script for generate the poly file : perl osm2poly.pl data.osm > data.poly

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answered 24 Aug '12, 15:22

NicolasDumoulin
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edited 04 Sep '12, 16:36

Pieren
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Thanks, that seems to have worked. It's cooking away now, so I'll have to see how it comes out!

(24 Aug '12, 16:33) PeterGribble

It seems to have come out in 60 different polygons, and when I ran my query it only found two results, whereas with a box covering the same rough area I got over 6000... Is that because the relation is made of 60 different ways? I've combined them in JOSM, and I'm about to try it again.

(28 Aug '12, 09:39) PeterGribble

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I don't understand which query you're talking. Ensure that you're merging all the ways in JOSM, and remove all the tags. Then, you can check the resulting .poly file by opening it in a text editor. You should have only one polygon section in the file.

(28 Aug '12, 10:11) NicolasDumoulin

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Have you seen the text at the top of osm2poly.pl? The bit about the "must have" tags is missing from Nicolas' description:

# script to convert an OSM file to a polygon file.
# the OSM file must follow certain conventions, namely
# each way must have a polygon_file and polygon_id tag,
# may have a note tag and must not have others.

(28 Aug '12, 10:19) cartinus

you're right cartinus, but I've never done that in my previous usage of this script … so I don't know, but you may try ;)

(28 Aug '12, 10:48) NicolasDumoulin

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Yeah, it seems the original data were split into different ways, and combining them in JOSM before converting has fixed the problem. It's all working fine! Thanks Nicolas :)

(04 Sep '12, 14:41) PeterGribble

It seems that a JOSM plugin can be installed (name 'poly') and you can export the poly file directly from JOSM (http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Plugins)

(04 Sep '12, 16:40) Pieren

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2	You can use: http://polygons.openstreetmap.fr/ It will convert your relation ID to a poly file and it has an API : http://polygons.openstreetmap.fr/get_poly.py?id=376823&params=0 permanent link answered 06 Dec '18, 09:05 Potdeyaourt 61●2●3 accept rate: 0%

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