diff --git a/ogr2osm.py b/ogr2osm.py
index 7ba01c5..84821f4 100755
--- a/ogr2osm.py
+++ b/ogr2osm.py
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 import sys
 import os
 import optparse
-import logging as l
 import re
 
 from osgeo import ogr
@@ -55,6 +54,10 @@
 
 from datetime import datetime
 
+# import logging and set logging level to DEBUG
+import logging as l
+l.basicConfig(level=l.DEBUG, format="%(message)s")
+
 # Determine major Python version is 2 or 3
 IS_PYTHON2 = sys.version_info < (3, 0)
 
@@ -90,7 +93,6 @@
 
 
 # Initialize
-l.basicConfig(level=l.DEBUG, format="%(message)s")
 LINESTRING_POINTS = {}