Does Open Street Map have an input API? or Upload feature?
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء English وچ «searain» لیکھ چھپیا گیا سی۔For example, a lot of cities have the city open data, such as http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/index.htm.
And many city datasets are with geo locations. Such as public washrooms etc. Instead of let the user add one spot one time manually to open street.
Does open street allow csv files uploading or does open street map has an input api that users/developers can submit data through?
If not yet, does open street map have projects or plans to develop these input features?
Discussion
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 15:16 تے «denizzz» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
osm.wiki/Legal_FAQ
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 15:26 تے «SomeoneElse» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
There’s also information over at osm.wiki/Import and osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines .
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 15:36 تے «searain» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
denizzz, thanks for the quick response.
A few more questions.
Thanks!
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 15:57 تے «searain» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Thanks! SomeoneElse, I should spend time to go through all the documents. I was excited and hurry to jump in uploading data.
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 17:29 تے «Christian Ledermann» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
have a look at: http://schools.mapthe.uk/ and https://github.com/cleder/os-opendata-edubase
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 17:48 تے «SOSM» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Any bulk import has to be compatible with our distribution licence AND digestible and maintainable by the local community. The history of OpenStreetMap is littered with failed imports many of which have not been cleaned up for years.
And it is OpenStreetMap … thanks.
ایہہ 22؍June 2016ء 21:43 تے «Hjart» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
You are obviously very,very new to OSM (you didn’t even make any edits yet). I recommend making at least a few (using iD) doing anything else and that you do not even consider importing anything before having considerable experience doing ordinary edits.
ایہہ 23؍June 2016ء 15:49 تے «joost schouppe» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Many new contributors like you have wanted to jump in by importing. The most important thing to realize is that most OSM data is handcrafted by volunteers who do this because they like doing it. Most external data is made by people payed to do it. You will find that OSM data might be sparse and incomplete, but the quality of what is there is phenomenal. Most of the time, external data will be either of bad quality or evaluated to really different quality measures. In practice, that means you will either need a complicated technical solution, or will just be able to use external data as a starting point. Either way, it is a bit more complicated than feeding an API.
OSM is not a collection of geographic features but an integrated database of things with a spatial component. For well defined things, it might be more efficient to look elsewhere. For example, for address databases, there’s this project.