[OSM-dev] Inserting OSM data

[John Smith]

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

It's not that simple, because you may need to deal with merging,
alternatively you could produce .osm files similar to what JOSM
produces and then people can load those files into JOSM and merge or
add data to OSM.