[GIS] Convert OSM to Shapefile

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How can I convert an OSM file to Shapefile? Is there a good tool or a good web page.

I tried this link https://code.google.com/archive/p/osm2shp/, but there is an error.

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If you install the GDAL and OGR tools (open source, available for all major operating systems, see osgeo.org for downloads and details) you can do this on a command line:

$ ogr2ogr maps map.osm

and it will extract the OSM file into an existing folder called "maps" as several shapefiles. Note that OSM layers can contain more than one geometry type, but shapefiles can't, so you might see:

ERROR 6: Geometry type of `Geometry Collection' not supported in shapefiles.  Type can be overridden with a layer creation option of SHPT=POINT/ARC/POLYGON/MULTIPOINT/POINTZ/ARCZ/POLYGONZ/MULTIPOINTZ/MULTIPATCH.

Better to save to a GeoPackage, which can handle Geometry Collection and long field names (another source of shapefile errors):

$ ogr2ogr -f GPKG map.gpkg map.osm
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.

now you have a GeoPackage file that contains all the layers which can be read in most major GIS packages.

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For offline maps using OSM data i find three libraries very much useful.

osmdroid : I use this library if i have to work with tiles that are in mbtiles format that i generate using tilemill. There is a bonus library for routing called osmbonuspack that adds lots of routing and POI functionality to this library.
mapsforge: I use this library when i need to have the map data in vector format and also because it works with another great library called graphhopper in android.
graphhopper: I use this library for offline routing using osm data. This is a lightweight java routing library which work for android as well.

I suggest you take a look at these libraries if you want to use OSM with android. Also after you get somewhat familiar with these libraries i suggest you take a look at the code for popular android based tools for osm like osmand, osmtracker and Vespucci

You can find lots of tutorials on the internet based on these libraries. Do explore. I hope this helps.

[GIS] Convert OSM XML to GeoJson correctly

I clearly don't know where your issue is.

It's working exactly like the http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62780 if you use osmtogeojson. You can see a sample in action and there are no broken elements. I make a call using the Overpass API (encoded url) and then do the conversion.

If you need a "one-shot" conversion without depending on third party later e.g Overpass API, just use query-overpass (need to have Node.js installed) and do:

# To install
npm install -g query-overpass
# Put the OverPass query and transform to GeoJSON using the command line 'query-overpass'
echo '[out:json][timeout:25];(relation(62780););out body;>;out skel qt;' | query-overpass --flat-properties > osm-relation-id-62780.geojson

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