How to export notes

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hike39

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Jul 27, 2016, 7:28:42 AM7/27/16
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Vespucci 0.9.7.1.1141

Some days ago I have done a survey with Vespuccio. During that session I have created some notes beside housenumbers etc. At home I could download my changes via the *.osc file. But unfortunately I could not find the note tags in that file.

So my question is how can I export notes?

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Simon Poole

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Jul 27, 2016, 8:24:53 AM7/27/16
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There is currently no way of doing that (nor do I believe in any other editor), but obviously it would not be hard to do.

The main thing that would need thinking about is the file format (.osc files are specific to OSM data), the only thing that currently exist IMHO is the format used by the Notes dump on planet.openstreetmap.org. To actually be useful at least JOSM would have to support it too.

Could you open an issue on github on the topic?

Note: you can naturally simply upload the notes to osm.org or a private API instance.

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hike39

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Jul 27, 2016, 2:36:05 PM7/27/16
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The main thing that would need thinking about is the file format (.osc files are specific to OSM data), the only thing that currently exist IMHO is the format used by the Notes dump on planet.openstreetmap.org. To actually be useful at least JOSM would have to support it too.

I've just checked the .osn file format. That would be fine. But the support by JOSM must be clearified.


Could you open an issue on github on the topic?

I'll do that as soon as possible.

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hike39

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Jul 27, 2016, 3:06:16 PM7/27/16
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JOSM can open .osn files.

See attached screenshot.

I've created a test file of the .osn format. And I could see the note in JOSM.

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Simon Poole

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Jul 27, 2016, 3:35:43 PM7/27/16
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The problem is that we need to capture some state (just as in JOSMs version of .osm files), at least if the note is newly created (that can be signaled with a negative id, that new notes already have) and if it has been modified (new comment and/or action). So the dump format is a good start, but not the solution yet.

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Simon Poole

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Jul 28, 2016, 3:09:09 AM7/28/16
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I'm discussing this with the author of the JOSM Notes implementation, seems as if there is already provisions for exactly what I pointed out, so this is likely very easy.
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