openstreetmap to extract country for inkscape vector

I stumbled upon your question while trying to do the same thing, here's how I did it: What can I do now to georeference these vectors with open source tools and finally produce a shapefile? This actually works, but (as expected) places the vectors in the atlantic ocean and I can't find a way to edit it and fix this. I already tried converting the SVG to a DXF and importing it into qgis 2.0.1. Luckily, the PDf includes the linework as separate vector objects, I extracted these into a SVG file: I'm not keen on redrawing the linework myself, so I'm looking for a way to make a shapefile out of this. What actually is published though, is a PDF file lining out the borders of the districts I'm interested in:

My problem is - as you could probably guess - that something like this doesn't already exist. The election raw data on the scale I need is published and I know how to visualize this on the grounds of a shapefile with separate polygons lining out the election districts. Hopefully this helps in understanding what I'm going for. The result is going to be very similar to what has been done for Berlin here. The only way I see to do the transformation at present is to work out the affine transformation parameters and use the QgsAffine plugin, but that does require you to work out the parameters beforehand by fitting known source coordinates to known target coordinates.īut to do hundreds? You might be better off writing some custom SVG parsing code for each one.I want to create a small web application to visualize election results on a per poll site basis for my city. This probably isn't a problem since maybe you are only interested in the added data on the map, and not the base map (country outlines etc) since you will probably want to overlay your data onto standard map base layer (natural earth, OpenStreetMap tiles). You'll probably need to work with a layer at a time. However, it won't yet be properly georeferenced or styled, and different layers may be in different places because the SVG has some scaling and translating operators on parts of the map data that QGIS or Inkscape is ignoring. This should at least get you most of the linework into QGIS. Partial Solution: load SVG into Inkscape, Save as DXF file, then you can load this into QGIS.

Openstreetmap to extract country for inkscape vector