[OSM-dev] Inserting OSM data

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi John,

>> 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.

Creating OSM files would be easy for us. But where would we sent them? 
Simply put them on our webserver and make an announcement on the osm 
list "hey, we have some osm data to be merged/imported! Have fun!"!?

The other problem is how do we get to know that one of our ways got 
imported into the public OSM database and thus assigned an ID so that 
we can get rid of that way in our private database?

I have just logged into www.openstreetmap.org and found the GPS traces 
pane and the page on which one can upload gps traces. However, where 
can I upload OSM files to with ways having street names, way kind, ...?

Thanks,

  Andreas