Steve Doerr wrote: > Is there a tool for importing a spreadsheet (or maybe CSV file) of POI > nodes, either directly into OSM or into one of the editors? >
I don't know if there is a magic tool for it or not* (if it was me, I'd just do it with an editor macro), but the format that you're aiming for to be able to upload it and then edit the points with Potlatch is something like this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/traces/451095 As I understand it there needs to be a track with at least one track point in it. The waypoints in the GPX then get uploaded as temporary POIs which can be unlocked in Potlatch, have their tags corrected if necessary, and then saved. In the example above the points are signpost locations. I didn't actually import the waypoints into OSM because the route relation describes the route better than the signpost locations, but I left it as a publicly accessible GPX in case anyone ever wondered why the OSM route disagrees with what's printed on the maps produced by a Large National Mapping Provider. <sybil fawlty mode> ** If you're actually going to import POIs I suspect that the biggest challenge is that you're not duplicating anything else already there. </sybil fawlty mode> * there usually is ** "specialist subject the bleedin' obvious" _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
