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		pabs3 on Jan 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Pinball Map – user-updated map of public ... Would be interesting to add the data to the OSM database somehow.

ryantgtg on Jan 20, 2020 [–]

For one, that would require regular syncing. The map is updated frequently, so snapshots get out of date quickly.

There have been 143,478 map edits in the last 3 years.

pabs3 on Jan 22, 2020 | [–]

It seems that OSM has ways to do syncing with external databases, it looks like the best option here would be to use Osmsync.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmsync https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GO-Sync https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/gtfs-osm-sync

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