Hi all, we are collecting huge amounts of GPS-tracks with a fleet of vehicles with on-board computers. These tracks are used internally for a bunch of purposes (vehicle monitoring, etc ). We have to maintain our own database of tracks, add properties like a so a called pickupCondition, which determines how good a track is (e.g. paved, muddy, never use it when it's raining,...). We would like to insert this collected data into the OSM database and am looking for the best way to do that. We have the data in our ERP system. Users are supposed to review the collected tracks, add properties (pickupCondition). What we plan to do is to use the public OSM data, add the self-collected tracks and use the resulting dataset to generate map, calculate routes, etc. We need to do it that way, because
• our users cannot use the official OSM editor for several reasons (to complicated, no direct access to our tracks,...) • the "grab OSM data from public server and compile the data for our mapserver, routeserver,..."-cycle is too long. It would take 1-2 weeks until entered data would show up in our ERP. However, we want to pass our track data to the OSM project and are looking for a neat way to do that. We can convert our data to any format (some kind of CSV or XML preferred). We just need a TCP interface to post them to or a destination email address where to send the files to. Simply uploading the tracks to some server is no good solution. When a user creates a track in our database it gets a primary key but of course can't be assigned an official OSM ID yet. So the upload process would need to be as follows: Iterate through al newly created tracks - send a track with nodes to the OSM server and receive IDs for the way and the nodes - assign these IDs to our private database objects and thus marking them sent and no longer new For that we need some kind of TCP-based XML interface so that we could send a track in some XML format to a TCP socket and get back the IDs assigned to objects by the public OSM database server. Only that would allow us the assign the returned IDs to our private database objects and thus avoid data duplication. Is there such an API (TCP-socket based)? What's our best option? Thanks a lot, Andreas _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
