id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
11045	"New optional parameters to ""import"" remote control handler for tag replacement and OSM API download"	StefanB	team	"shp/dbf file format is rather old and lacks support for colons in field names, which makes it problematic for massive community imports where source:date and other source data (eg source_prefix:id must be specified in OSM tags. Having to search and replace manually for each tag during manual community import might be too demanding and error prone for comunity import.

According to wiki, the /import remote control command only has two parameters:
Parameter	Required/Optional	Meaning
url	R	
new_layer	O	If true, downloads to a new layer

It would help us greatly to support these optional parameters:
tagSearchAndReplace	O	Searches and replaces the tags when importing .shp files.  Multiple parameters
loadAlsoFromApi	O	If true it also downloads the data from API on the bbox of the imported file (which is zoomed already by default). It can also add 10% (fixed or specified) margin of loaded data for better context

Example:
tagSearchAndReplace=ID=.*|source_prefix:id=.*&tagSearchAndReplace=DATE=.*|source:date=.*
or more correctly with url encoding:
tagSearchAndReplace=ID%3D.%2A%7Csource_prefix%3Aid%3D.%2A&tagSearchAndReplace=DATE%3D.%2A%7Csource%3Adate%3D.%2A


Note, we did strongly consider using ogr2osm, but there are still open problems, namely duplicated ways (https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm/issues/28 , solved in JOSM as #10761 ) is a blocker and long ways (https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm/issues/30 ) is an inconvenience. Importing shp into JOSM seems more feasable with this being the only obstacles.

We're open for other/modified solution proposals.

Thanks,
Stefan"	enhancement	closed	normal		Core remotecontrol		wontfix	import tag replacement download