[OSM-dev] Procedure to get a dev.openstreetmap.org account

[Shaun McDonald]

On 10 Jun 2009, at 12:22, Simone Cortesi wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Shaun
> McDonald<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> The following test servers are available for testing of scripts,  
>> rather than
>> using the main OSM server:
>> http://apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
>> api06 or new06 are recommended.
>
> How data are handled on this dew servers?
>
> If I upload thru this dev server (i.e. new06) things remain there and
> then they are overwritten from the stream coming from the "official"
> DB?
>

Things remain on the test server. It is a copy of the code in SVN with  
a completely separate database.

> Can I do test uploads to this dev servers and see them rendered?

There is no rendering process currently setup. If this is important  
for a test import that you are doing, it may be possible to set it up.

>
> Then? Do I need to erase them? Or are they overwritten with a clean  
> DB?
>

We can dump the DB on request.

Alternatively you can test the revert scripts ;-)

Shaun

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