[OSM-dev] Fwd: OSM item tracking

[Roland Olbricht]

Hi,

I think you will need several tools, because the posed questions aren't solved 
all by the same tool.
 
> My use case is:
> 
> a school district has a list of 15 schools.  They have all the updated
> information.  They keep this information in a website to show to people, an
> they want to share it in ISM and keep it updated in OSM.
> 
> How can they be notified of a change?

This requires somebody who regularly looks after the reports about potential 
changes. A tool that can watch for changes is for example
http://www.openstreetmap.fr/~zorglub/watch/
Ypu can be bold and select all schools in a quite big bounding box around your 
district - these will still be less than one change per day on average.

> How would they make a change on their website and then sync that data back
> over to OSM?

The best way to make a change in OSM is really to use an editor and do the 
change. All automatic solutions have problems.

The Permanent ID tool for example, is deliberately designed only to link to 
objects in OSM, not to feed data there.

Best regards,

Roland
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