[OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading

Simone Cortesi simone at cortesi.com
Sun Jul 19 10:08:31 BST 2009


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:58, Andrew Ayre<andy at britishideas.com> wrote:
> I am converting public domain data into OSM files for bulk upload. This
> is data that currently is not in OSM.
>
> JOSM is a nightmare for uploading large amounts of data. I have a OSM
> file with 30k nodes (5Mb) and JOSM tells me it will take 15 hours...
>
> I tried bulk_upload.py and it fails with error 404 - no further information.
>
> I tried bulk_upload.php and it also failed with an error - can't
> remember the details now.

Recently I've used the following in order to upload some converted
data to osm...

Data were generated from State's SHP using:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/shp2osm/polyshp2osm.py

then:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/bulk_upload_06

Used a wrap-around to do directory traverse.

-S




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