[OSM-dev] Inserting OSM data

[Nic Roets]

Hello Andreas,

It sounds very generous.

If you are providing data for an area where OSM already has coverage,
it is a good idea to be in touch with them. The less OSM coverage, the
more eager they will be for a real time interface as you suggest.

A good starting point is if we help you to write a simple utility that
converts your data to OSM-XML with negative ids. Then the "locals" can
inspect the tagging and look for duplicates.

Regards,
Nic

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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