converting OSM file to shp losses data in the procees

[qgib]

Author Name: baditaflorin - (baditaflorin -)
Original Redmine Issue: 6611
Affected QGIS version: 1.8.0
Redmine category:project_loading/saving

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I have a OSM file for Romania, created using osmconvert from pbf.

and i load the osm data into Qgis using Openstreetmap plugin
i do right click on the points layer, save as ersi shapefile

After i load the data a lot of data gets lost in the process.

You can see from the attached files that in second example, the tag attribute misses a lot of data, making it useless for statistics.

And i cannot use the osm file because with 60000 objects inside, it`s moving to slow.
The SHP file haves great speed, but it has this bug too.

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• conversie_osm_shp_2.jpg (baditaflorin -)
• conversie_osm_shp.jpg (baditaflorin -)

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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please attach sample data.

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[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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shapefile have a 255 char limit for columns width, so not a qgis bug, but a format limitation. If you need to preserve all the data then you will need to export in a more advanced format, like spatialite or postgis.

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