[OSM-dev] OSMOSIS: Problems Importing Data

[Jon Burgess]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 14:26 -0400, Lucier, Trent wrote:
> Is there a way to use JOSM to add those attributes?  I’m looking
> through the tool and its documentation, and I do not see how to do it.
> I’ve also looked at Merkaartor, and I don’t see it there, either.  

The normal way to import data like this is to:
- Run a local instance of the rails port
- Access the local web interface to create an account
- Get the email to confirm the account (or make the account active by
editing the DB tables)
- Update your JOSM preferences to set your local instance as the API
server
- Configure JOSM with username & password of local account
- Open data, hit upload.

The rails code will then do through the steps of adding the data into
the DB with all the correct changeset, uid attributes etc.

I know it sounds like a lot of steps, but then you have a local setup
which can upload/download whatever data you like.

Note: Be very careful if you want to transfer this data to the main OSM
DB afterwards. There is not really any way to do it. Your local data
will be infected with locally generated ID values which will conflict
with data on the main site.

	Jon