[OSM-dev] Uploading traces to the API

Tue Nov 13 10:57:25 GMT 2007

In message <c72329f00711130234t7960da3dte014d0d31d08cef9 at mail.gmail.com>
        David Dean <ddean at ieee.org> wrote:

> Can I get some help in uploading some gpx files through the api. All I
> seem to get is a non-helpful error message.
>
> curl -u XXXXX:XXXX -F
> gpx_file=@/home/david/docs/SDCARDMirror/NaviPOWM/Save/2007111100.txt
> -F description=2007111100.txt -F tagstring="navipowm" -F public=1
> http://openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/gpx/create
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <body>
>   <h1>Application error</h1>
>   <p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an
> action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in
> public/500.html</p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> What am I doing wrong?

The tags parameter is called "tags" not "tagstring", and the file
parameter is called "file" not "gpx_file".

Tom

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