[Openstreetmap] GPS point submission format

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[sparkes]
> agreed your general method is better than the current one but C and
> simple program don't really go together ;-) May I suggest Perl or
> Python are used for rapid development (and fixing) with excellent
> portability.

My suggestion was to use perl or C to reduce the dependencies.  All
modern systems come with perl included, and compiled programs should
be able to run with few extra dependencies.

I have a perl collector at the moment, but it is storing the data into
postgresql.  It would be easy to rewrite to store the points as files
instead.

The important requirement is to reduce the dependencies of the
collector programs.

> I believe this problem is best served with an xml-rpc or soap
> interface.  The file uploaded can be a simple xml file (so can be
> debugged by hand and modified using any of the tools available to
> us)

I have nothing against XML, but I believe it is a very bad idea to
create a new file format for this.  We should check existing file
formats, and use one of these instead.  If any of the usable formats
use XML, fine.  If not, we should not try to use XML.