[OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hey,  (just noticed your mail on the list)

2009/7/19 Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com>:
> 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.
>
> I'm now trying the scripts at
> http://www.openstreetmap.pl/balrog/bulkupload/. However I don't want to
> upload incorrect or partial data to the public server. So I tried
> uploading to api06.dev.openstreetmap.org and
> mysql.dev.openstreetmap.org. Both servers returned the following error:
>
> 500: Internal Server Error (<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application
> failed to start properly)
>
> All I want is a (moderately) fast and reliable way of uploading data. I
> have plenty of it ready to go. Can anyone help?

I'm afraid the scripts won't be any faster than JOSM, all the scripts
as well as JOSM use the same API and there's likely not going to be
much difference in speed or in reliability.  The 15h was probably a
little pessimistic, though (depending on your connectivity, but it
definitely should be less than that for 30k nodes).  And reliability
is assured by the API too.

Cheers