Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 March 2010 19:09, Jaak Laineste j...@nutiteq.com wrote: sample has total 52 fields: name and HTML descriptions in 3 languages, photos, opening hours, contacts (email,web,post, phones), organization details, tickets,access (wheelchair, public transport details), different flags etc.

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Im just tagging on to this thread for the archives. As it was just sent to the imports@ list, but not dev@ list, It attempts to solve the ideas that jaak noted below. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2010-March/005544.html (I was going to respond last week on this thread) ...

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jaak Laineste wrote: There could be quite good reasons to protect some of the data at least temporarily. Let's look at them then. Very technical reason: to avoid accidental deletion of nodes during bulk import (which takes days sometimes). Happened to me - but to be honest, only

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Jaak Laineste wrote: Is there a way to make maintenance of only their specific data in OSM easy? I think we're having different pictures here. OSM is not a platform which you can use to host your data. The data ceases

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-24 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-03-22 12:02, Nic Roets wrote: ... Unfortunately it has already happened many times. Below is a list of the third party identifiers that I have found. ... hdop sat pdop fix vdop To pick a nit, these are likely not ids, but instead useful info provided via GPS. I recognize: hdop =

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jaak Laineste wrote: Just for the future APIs I suggest to give to original importer (or just editor) some kind of priority over the others. Like possibility to lock/protect some parts of the data. It could be done in several levels: 1) my inserted data (tag, node, relation, way - any

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-23 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Jaak Laineste wrote: 1) my inserted data (tag, node, relation, way - any of them) can be defined as private, nobody else can not even see it. 2) my data is protected - you can see, but not modify 3) my data has

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-23 Thread John Robert Peterson
I've long considered that it would be good to have a system whereby anyone modifying a specified subset of the database would be presented with a message for them to read before comitting. This would be implemented with a special key that all editing software would be encouraged to support. In

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 22/03/10 15:00, Nic Roets wrote: One solution is to add your own tag to the OSM files you generate e.g. smartsoft_id=nnn. And publish the files for

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-22 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Almost 100% of the time these are imported to allow for the possibility of future updates to the existing imports. Except, as you point out, they can't be used in any way for future updates since you've got no idea if the

Re: [OSM-dev] [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-22 Thread Gregory
On 22 March 2010 12:38, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Almost 100% of the time these are imported to allow for the possibility of future updates to the existing imports. Except, as you point out, they can't be