[Openstreetmap] How do we handle large amount of GPS points?

[SteveC]

* Petter Reinholdtsen (pere at hungry.com) wrote:
> How can I update the list of points using xmlrpc?  I already produced
> one gpx file with some of the points from the large database.  How do
> you want to handle it when I am able to extract the complete database
> with 7 mill points, and want this import to replace the import done
> with the initial gpx file?
> 
> If the files were separate on a WebDAV server, we could remove the old
> one and upload the new ones.  I'm not sure how to do this with the
> current xmlrpc API.

I'm implementing (right now, as it happens) the versioning stuff so you
can update and delete points.

> Perhaps the database need some session id or collection id, to
> indicate which collection of points the user submitted?

the table has userid and trackid field goodness.

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/