[OSM-dev] Server Timeouts - JOSM and the forthcoming biguploads via the API

[Andy Robinson]

Tom Hughes [mailto:tom at compton.nu] wrote:
>Sent: 13 August 2007 10:10 AM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Server Timeouts - JOSM and the forthcoming
>biguploads via the API
>
>In message
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>        Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>> > I was talking to one of the Dutch guys about the AND data at the AGM
>and
>> > they would like to load the data directly on the server rather than
>doing
>> > it with API calls.
>> >
>> > That seemed sensible to me - my only preference was that it be done
>> > through the rails object model rather than via direct SQL queries.
>> >
>> > Maybe what we need is a ruby program to load an OSM file and insert
>> > it into the database via the rails object model?
>>
>> Sounds logical although if we want to allow general OSM users to upload
>> TIGER data themselves it would need a simple interface, so presumably it
>> would be logical to run it via a website form with the TIGER .osm files
>> already sitting on the server ready for use?
>
>Well I hadn't given any thought to that level of automation - for
>the AND data I was assuming it would just be done by hand.
>
>Perhaps an upload system like for GPX files, where a daemon then
>processes the queued files would be a good idea?
>


That would work. Perhaps better than someone simply requesting every county
be imported in one swoop!

Cheers

Andy