[OSM-talk] Uploading of nodes and segments

[SteveC]

* @ 21/10/06 10:02:05 PM martin.molnar at atlas.cz wrote:
> Hello, i am working on a software project for my school, which
> requires uploading a great ammount of data about Czech Republic to
> OSM. These data are originally from a road database and there are only
> inter-city roads. There are about 20000 nodes and 35000 segments.
> These data are in ESRI shapefile format, but i am able to convert them
> into other formats. I have a script that is able to convert them to
> OSM XML format, but i dont know how to assign the ID to nodes and
> segments, as they all will be new to OSM.
> 
> Now my question is, what would be the best way to upload these data to
> OSM. 

We should talk about this on the dev list, but first thing is where did
the data come from? We need to be sure it's not copyrighted. :-)

have fun,

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