[OSM-newbies] Welcome myself

John McKerrell john at mckerrell.net
Sun Aug 24 16:30:12 BST 2008


On 24 Aug 2008, at 15:58, Pablo Vega wrote:

> Just new to openstreetmap. Did a couple edits so far.
> In fact, I'm at the early stage of a project for which data from  
> openstreetmap would be of much help, but of course sometime I could  
> need some edits on the data.
> Any edit of the data that could be good to my project, would also be  
> good to openstreetmap, so I don´t want to just download, but also  
> upload, therefore:
> If I downloaded files from planet.osm and dump that info into a  
> postgresql, which the appropriate way to send my edits back to  
> openstreetmap? Just export from postgresql into JOSM (don´t know  
> how, but I bet there is a way) and upload from there? Won´t that end  
> in horrible overlapping of features?

You should probably take a look at the pages about the REST API:
	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5

If possible you might want to make your application download data live  
rather than using a delayed copy in postgresql, at the least though  
you should really download changes in an area and look for conflicts  
before uploading changes that have been made with your own  
application. You might also want to discuss this on the dev list  
rather than newbies as you'll get more responses on this sort of thing  
from there:

	dev at openstreetmap.org (Openstreetmap Dev list)

John



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