[OSM-talk] Need Help Bulk Uploading some POIs

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Milenko wrote:
>Sent: 12 December 2007 2:21 AM
>To: Bone Killian; Talk Openstreetmap
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Need Help Bulk Uploading some POIs
>
>I'm not 100% sure on this, but when creating nodes aren't the ID numbers
>supposed to be sequential numbers with a leading dash?  IE - -1, -2, -3,
>etc.
>
>Yours start at 1001 and go sequentially upwards.
>


Yes, whatever you do don't upload data with positive ID values or you will
overwrite the data existing in the database. Negative numbers only, which
forces JOSM to send the correct CREATE instruction to the database via the
API.


Cheers

Andy