[OSM-newbies] real-time upates to postgresql/postgis database

[Dave Welchons]

Hi All,

I think I followed the directions here
http://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/building-a-tile-server-from-packages/ to
create my own tiles on my own Ubuntu server.  I chose to only download the
Northeastern part of the U.S for my local tile data.   I would like to have
a map application to view the data, and another application running on my
server that generates points in some file format, I think, to be displayed
on the map.  Is there a way of generating that point data in such a way that
it can be imported in real-time into my local postgresql/postgis database
and be automatically displayed when the user looks at an area where those
points have been uploaded?  I have read briefly about osmosis and osm2pgsql
for importing data into the OSM database, but I don't know if those work on
my own local tile server, and I don't think they are intended for real-time
execution.

 

The only way I can conceive of is for my other application to generate .kml
files, and then the map application would use OpenLayers to load those files
by looking in a predefined directory on the server.

 

I would also like to timetag the data in order to provide the user with a
way to look at the points at various times.  I guess this would require the
data to be stored in the database with a time-tag of some kind.  

 

Thanks,

Dave Welchons  

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