[OSM-dev] help on developing an editor

[Sebastian Kürten]

Hi,

i'm trying to add some basic editing features to the software[1] i'm
developing, which has been a viewer up to now. in first instance i'd
like to support only editing of POIs.

so far i didn't understand what an editor has to do for submitting a
change.

i've browsed the wiki and found the 0.6-api-docs and found out that i
probably have to open a new changeset?

when clicking the "history"-button on the slippy map, i found that it's
possible to view a "changeset xml" and a "osmchange xml". to me it
seems that an editor would somehow have to send such an osmchange-xml to
the server? the content of the osmchange-xml seems straight-forward,
since it just contains <modify> and nested <way>/<node> tags.

could someone please describe shortly, what actions are necessary to
for example just changing a node's tags or inserting a new node?
(or provide a link to the correct wiki-page i've missed)

thanks in advance
seb

[1] http://gosm.sourceforge.net

p.s.
for those interested: the homepage is a bit out-of-date. currently it's
also possible to load .osm.xml-data either from files or through the
public-api and view the contained POIs by selecting tags to display.
the user can select the colour to show a set of nodes in and browse the
tags a node contains.