[Openstreetmap] How do I get started?

[SteveC]

* Petter Reinholdtsen (pere at hungry.com) wrote:
> 
> OK, so I got the GPS, the laptop and the Zaurus.  I even got gpsdriver
> working and gpsd running.  What do I do next?
> 
> I'm supposed to create some database?  How do I do that?  Where is the
> table spec, and what are the requirements for the database
> implementation?
> There is supposed to be some program talking to gpsd and storing the
> info in some database table.  Where is this program, and how do I run
> it?

Its in the subversion tree. An SQL snippet to create the table and user
isn't. Nor is any HOWTO type stuff. I will do this tomorrow.

> I would like to visualise the collected data, and annotate it with
> labels, lines and intersections.  How do I do this?

The idea is to splurt it at the openstreetmap server and edit it using
the applet. However the user accounts and versioning (a-la a wiki but
for spatial data) isn't done yet. But I have a fair clue how to do it
now, and am working on it.

> I would like to upload the colelcted data into the central collection
> point.  How do I do this?

As above, that bit isn't done yet.

> (I hope these questions can be the start of a howto.  I know I
> could/should read the source in svn, but suspect I'm not the only one
> not know where to start. :)

Yep. Tomorrow I'll have some stuff up about how to do this, and also
have an automatic tarball up so you don't have to do a subversion
checkout.


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have fun,

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