[OSM-dev] Request for comments: waypoint upload tool

[SteveC]

* @ 21/05/06 05:19:39 PM streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk wrote:
> Just wanted to ask peoples' opinions on this, before I finish the code and 
> publish it:
> 
> http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Tools/Waypoints/index.php
> 
> It will allow people to upload a waypoints file, then edit the information in 
> it (e.g. set "waypoint 232" to be a pub named The George), and press a button 
> to upload the waypoints to OSM as nodes.
> 
> You can try the interface now to play with uploading and editing some 
> waypoints, but it won't send anything to OSM yet.

cool...

> Some considerations:
>  * Will ask for OSM username and password, so stuff gets tagged with the 
> uploader's ID.  

Stuff already is tagged with ID, it's just not shown yet as I'm
privacy-cautious.

>  * Will tag the uploaded nodes with "created_by=almien_upload" and 
> "uploader=[username]"
>  * We might end-up with multiple copies of the same information, if several 
> people have waypointed something and each use this tool
>  * Can install this on an OSM domain later if necessary, so people don't have 
> to trust my website with their passwords.
> 
> Any comments on whether this would cause huge breakage to OSM infrastructure, 
> or is it worth doing?

Absolutely worth doing, more cool if you could hack the gpx import
script to do it (should be fairly simple) and also write something for
freethepostcode that would accept postcode-named waypoints in a GPX...

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/