2009/4/8 <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I started writing the tool to do import > of TMC-LocationCodeLists into OSM (will be used for Germany at > first but there are lots of other countries with TMC-data so > I try to make it generic and user-friendly). > > One very fundamental question has come up.... > what is the best or prefered way to have the tool output it's changes? > > * It can download the current state of the changed entities and > write an osmChange (full support of the changeset-comment+generator) > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmChange > * It can download the current state of the changed entities and > write a josm-file (could be easy to review) > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM_file_format
For the UK NaPTAN import, I've used a mixture of these two. I've used the JOSM format for any initial bulk imports using the perl script. I've also tweaked a few nodes which I messed up on the original import of a region using the osmChange format to modify the nodes that had been uploaded in error. > * It can upload it's changes directly to the API (no review) > > I would like to be able to run it, then review the changes it > wants to make in an editor and only apply them if a large enough > sample looks fine. > > I also need to deal with users changing entities between the time > I download them and I upload my changes. > Should I make this one large changeset or one changeset per type > (roads, segments, points) or one changeset per imported entity > (e.g. a motorway, some segments and a number of points)? This is something I've yet to tackle, but will have to in order to merge fields I missed from the original import by accident. > I will have my tool store localy what elements have already been > imported and would like it to store the IDs assigned to them > by the API0.6 and the changeset-id (in case I need to rollback > something later). How could I do that? I use the bulk_upload.pl script, it stores the original and new ids of files in its own file format, the dumper tool can output this list to a Old: New style output which I then parsed to modify the data as required. > > > Marcus > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
