new feature to load POI from CSV file or GPX file

[paul@…]

Would it be possible to load Waypoints for POI eg Toilets, post offices, banks , shopping centres etc.. from JOSM
eg imput file could be CSV format

category, type, lat, lon, description

eg
Amenity,supermarket,-35.1234,149.1234,Freddos GPS and OSM store

[Gabriel Ebner <ge@…>]

Depending on what you want to do, you could produce an OSM file directly and then load that into JOSM, e.g. your example would translate to:

<osm version="0.5">
  <node id="-1" lat="-35.1234" lon="149.1234">
    <tag k="amenity" v="supermarket"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Freddos GPS and OSM store"/>
  </node>
</osm>

You can also use a perl script for that:

use HTML::Entities;
print "<osm version='0.5'>\n";
while (($k,$v,$lat,$lon,$name) = split /[\n,]/, <>) {
  printf "<node id='".--$id."' lat='$lat' lon='$lon'>".
    "<tag k='%s' v='%s'/><tag k='name' v='%s'/></node>\n",
    map HTML::Entities::encode_entities_numeric($_), $k, $v, $name;
}
print "</osm>\n";

[anonymous]

A start would be allow converting Waypoints (Markers layer) to Nodes. Then one can go and add Tags.

[stoecker]

waypoints plugin should do that.