[OSM-dev] Inserting OSM data

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

What we did for a similar project in kosovo[1] is to create a set of files
on archive.org split by 10k gps points, they are being traced over by
volunteers.
we processed the csv data into osm files wih perl.

If you need help setting that up, please let me know.
retrospectivly it is better to create gpx files instead of osm files.

mfg,
mike
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosovo_LogisticsPlus_Tracing

2010/3/22 Andreas Höschler <ahoesch at smartsoft.de>

> Hi all,
>
> we are collecting huge amounts of GPS-tracks with a fleet of vehicles
> with on-board computers. These tracks are used internally for a bunch
> of purposes (vehicle monitoring, etc ). We have to maintain our own
> database of tracks, add properties like a so a called pickupCondition,
> which determines how good a track is (e.g. paved, muddy, never use it
> when it's raining,...). We would like to insert this collected data
> into the OSM database and am looking for the best way to do that. We
> have the data in our ERP system. Users are supposed to review the
> collected tracks, add properties (pickupCondition). What we plan to do
> is to use the public OSM data, add the self-collected tracks and use
> the resulting dataset to generate map, calculate routes, etc. We need
> to do it that way, because
>
> • our users cannot use the official OSM editor for several reasons (to
> complicated, no direct access to our tracks,...)
> • the "grab OSM data from public server and compile the data for our
> mapserver, routeserver,..."-cycle is too long. It would take 1-2 weeks
> until entered data would show up in our ERP.
>
> However, we want to pass our track data to the OSM project and are
> looking for a neat way to do that. We can convert our data to any
> format (some kind of CSV or XML preferred). We just need a TCP
> interface to post them to or a destination email address where to send
> the files to. Simply uploading the tracks to some server is no good
> solution. When a user creates a track in our database it gets a primary
> key but of course can't be assigned an official OSM ID yet. So the
> upload process would need to be as follows:
>
> Iterate through al newly created tracks
>  - send a track with nodes to the OSM server and receive IDs for the
> way and the nodes
>  - assign these IDs to our private database objects and thus marking
> them sent and no longer new
>
> For that we need some kind of TCP-based XML interface so that we could
> send a track in some XML format to a TCP socket and get back the IDs
> assigned to objects by the public OSM database server. Only that would
> allow us the assign the returned IDs to our private database objects
> and thus avoid data duplication. Is there such an API (TCP-socket
> based)?
>
> What's our best option?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
>  Andreas
>
>
>
>
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