[OSM-dev] Inserting OSM data

[Peter Körner]

> 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!"!?

There are apis to upload them, but you are not encouraged to upload 
massive amounts of data without human review.

So yes, for now putting GPX- and/or OSM-Extracts on some webserver would 
be a really good starting point. If everything is fine and we don't 
expect duplications of existing data, you may upload directly to the api.

There are again several things to consider, like
  - grouping multiple changes spatially to avoid "big" changeset
  - provide a informative changeset comment
  - provide a contact in case of emergency
  - send an appropriate user-agent

Peter