On 22/03/10 13:04, Andreas Höschler wrote: > 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:
Can you clarify whether you're talking about uploading this as GPS trace data (what we would normally recommend for raw GPS data) or as actual OSM map data? > 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)? There are APIs for both, but not necessarily exactly what you want (in particular for GPS trace data). Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
