On 2 February 2012 12:48, Morten Olsen Lysgaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Case: > I export an bbox containing some features from the OSM database using the > api. > Now I want to push those features as new features to another database, > OpenAviationMap, running the same API. That means that all the id's in the > OSM XML are invalid for the OpenAviationMap database. > > What I'm wondering: What transformations would i have to do with an XML file > from OSM to upload it to another database running rails_port. > I've understood i have to create unique negative ids for each object in the > XML, but what about version, changeset date and all those other attributes. > What are the correct attributes for data that's "new" to a database? > > Note: I want to upload the "new" data using JOSM. Right now, if I try it > complains that I'm trying to modify objects that don't exist in my database.
You'd also need to make sure there's action="create" attached to the imported objects. Version and changeset might be ignored by the rails_port when you're creating objects (not sure), but likely JOSM will just ignore all of those attributes when generating the change xml. Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
