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ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is a toolset for GIS users to access and contribute to OpenStreetMap through their Desktop or Server environment.
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How long does it take for edits to appear on OSM? #113

Open markvolzlyoncounty opened 8 years ago

markvolzlyoncounty commented 8 years ago

How long does it take for edits to appear in OSM after we submit edits?

ThomasEmge commented 8 years ago

It should take about 5 - 15 minutes to become visible. It depends on the amount of edit tasks in the queue ahead of yours (on the OSM server that is).

markvolzlyoncounty commented 8 years ago

Thomas and others,

I still have not noticed some of my updates, and it has been over a day. Could you help verify that my workflow is correct:

  1. Download OSM data for a small area using the Download, Extract, and Symbolize tool. Data was downloaded to a new File Geodatabase, in a feature class that is in WGS 1984. The mxd that I am using is also in the same projection.
  2. I added a bike path. I was not exactly sure what tags to use so I just copied the tags from a neighboring bike path that has similar tags. The only difference is that I gave my new bike path a name.
  3. I saved my edits and stopped editing.
  4. I used the "upload OSM data" tool to push my updates. In the tool I used the same username and password as I do to get to openstreetmap.org, and I specified the revision table that was created in my new File Geodatabase. The tool ran and did not report any errors.

Questions: The workflow seems simple, what am I missing? Question, what if our edits are outside of the area that we downloaded? Could that be causing an issue?

Thanks

ThomasEmge commented 8 years ago

As long the upload geoprocessing tool is not reporting any errors the information captured during the editing is submitted successfully to the OSM server. What you see on the website is only a subset of the data in Openstreetmap. So if you don't match the rendering attributes the data might never show up. For starters I would suggest sticking with the edit templates that are generated when you run the "apply the symbology" tools. They are designed to match the official OSM tags and data captured with the templates are more likely to get rendered. (Still not guaranteed but much more likely). You can edit any part of the world, inside or outside the download area. There is no dependency between download area and the uploaded data. However it is always recommended to work within the context of existing data so you can connect the street network and capture data in relation to its surroundings.

khoffmanMN commented 8 years ago

Hi Thomas,

I'm having the same issue described here. I believe I am doing everything I need to. My Arcmap dataframe is set to the WGS 1984 coordinate system. After zooming to the appropriate area and running 'Download, Extract, and Symbolize' tool, I receive the data from OSM. Then, I run the 'Add OSM Editor' on all three (point, line, poly) layers in the downloaded geodatabase. I do some editing, nothing special just extending a road a bit. When 'Creating New Features' with the editing tool, I am sure to use the templates set up during the data download (I am simply adding a Highway - Residential feature; from what I'm seeing, I am adding the exact same attributes as the original part of the road that I have extended). Then, I save the edits and run the 'Upload to OSM' tool (I was sure to look at the revision table that I uploaded... it looks like the editing changes were successfully recorded in the table). I've cut down my task to this one simple edit just to see if I could get the change pushed to OSM. It's been a few days of playing with it, and still no luck. I suppose I should mention the Upload tool runs without any error messages, so as far as I can tell everything is going OK process-wise. But the data has yet to appear in OSM. Perhaps there is a step I am missing when you mention "sticking with the edit templates that are generated when you run the apply symbology tools"?

Is there anything you can think of that I might be doing wrong? The tool is set up in the correct version of Arcmap (10.3). I've combed the web and a variety of discussion forums looking for answers, but have come up empty. I'd really like to get the tool working, as we have a lot of data that will need updating this summer. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

ThomasEmge commented 8 years ago

I was suggesting to use the templates as they are most like to contain the features that are actually rendered in OSM. It is not a requirement but merely a suggestion. Based on your description I don't think you are doing anything wrong. Do take a look in the revision table after the upload. If everything went fine, then there should be an "OK" or "200" per row. If that is the case then the next step would be to send me a copy of the file geodatabase and I will try to take a closer look.

khoffmanMN commented 8 years ago

Thanks Thomas. Today I got the tool to work, and the edits have been successfully pushed to the OSM site. I repeated the process as I originally described, with a few small differences. This time I ran the 'Add OSM Editor Extension' in this order: lines, points, then polys. When editing, I did not merge any lines (in my case, road segments that were all part of the same larger road) as I had done before. Instead, I just added the small road segments as individual features and manually entered in the segment name. Also, when using the upload tool, I unchecked the 'Bundle Data' box. If anybody else is having trouble adding road segments, maybe this will be useful for them. It did take a few days to find the right combination of settings to get the tool to work right. I have the various MXDs and geodatabases from the last few days; both those that worked, and those that didn't. If you have any interest in me sending them to you, let me know. Of note: even in some of the geodatabases that didn't upload correctly, the rows were recorded with a 200 code. All the geoprocessing results have been saved in the MXDs, so it may be helpful to find out why the other settings I had originally used didn't work.

ThomasEmge commented 8 years ago

Please send me the database you were working with (paste it into this conversation as a zip or email me at temge@esri.com). Maybe I can find something in there. You've mentioned 'merge'. Are you talking about a merge in the geoprocessing terms as merging a dataset into OSM or as in merging two features in the editor?