huftis/ssr2osm

Scripts for converting data from Sentralt stadnamnregister to the OpenStreetMap file format(s)

ssr2osm

Scripts for converting data from Sentralt stadnamnregister to the OpenStreetMap file format(s).

Prerequisites

R (http://www.r-project.org/) with the packages rjson, plyr, and stringr.

Usage

1. Download GeoJSON files from http://data.kartverket.no/stedsnavn/GeoJSON/Fylker/.

2. Edit the first lines of the script r-scripts/ssr2osm.R to point to a downloaded file, the kommune number (four digits) for the output and the output file name.

3. Change to the r-scripts directory

    cd r-scripts
   

4. Run the ssr2srm.R script

    Rscript ssr2srm.R
   

Getting prerequisites on Ubuntu

Optionally, add RTAN archive to get a more recent R:

• Add the line

    deb http://cran.uib.no/bin/linux/ubuntu lucid/
  

  to /etc/apt/sources.list. Replace lucid with your Ubuntu version and cran.uib.no with your favourite mirror.

• Update and upgrade

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  

Install the development package so that packages can be compiled:

    sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Install packages from R:

    sudo R
    > install.packages()

For more detailed instructions, see http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README