Hi all, >> The ideal solution for use would be to send a WAY segment in OSM >> format to some service and receive a response with the IDs for the >> created way and the created nodes! But I understand this is not >> supported due to the obvious merging problem (avoid duplicates)!? > > With the API, you can upload new nodes/ways/relations, fetch the > existing ones, and update the existing ones (uploading a changeset). > > The problem is that you might upload a new way that overlaps an > existing OSM way. Either you upload it and merge with OSM tools, or > you download the OSM data in the neighborhood, check if it overlaps, > and update your data with the already-existing OSM data, etc etc.
We are now about to implement the <our system> --> public OSM server filter and as a first measure would like to simply upload GPS traces generated by our employees. We have the trackpoints in our database. We can easily generate a gpx file from that <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <gpx version="1.0" creator="OpenStreetMap.org" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/";> <trk> <trkseg> <trkpt lat="53.28473" lon="10.382721"/> <trkpt lat="53.284677" lon="10.383027"/> <trkpt lat="53.284665" lon="10.383144"/> <trkpt lat="53.284638" lon="10.383407"/> ... </trkseg> </trk> </gpx> and now are looking for a way to programmatically upload that to the OSM server for the community to review the data and conversion into actual ways and nodes. We plan to use a system() call from our application and execute the following command curl -v -v -d @tracks.gpx -H "X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE: POST" "http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/gpx/create"; but I assume that the above command is not entirely correct!? I especially not understand the "It expects the following POST parameters in a multipart/form-data HTTP message:" part on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6. How has the above command line to be modified to work? In a later step we want to add functionality to our system that allows our users to directly create nodes and ways on the public OSM server but this requires a bunch of problems to be solved first. FOr now we would like to stick to uploading traces. How can this best be done from a unix application? Thanks a lot, Andreas _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
