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-Use this README file to introduce your application and point to useful places in the API for learning more.
-Run "rake appdoc" to generate API documentation for your models and controllers.
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+This is the OpenStreetMap rails server codebase. Documentation is currently
+extremely incomplete. Please help by writing docs and moving any SQL you
+see to use models etc.
+
+=INSTALL
+
+Full information is available at 
+http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails
+
+* Get rails working (http://www.rubyonrails.org/)
+* Make your db (see db/README)
+* Install ruby libxml bindings:
+    sudo apt-get install libxml-ruby1.8 libxml-parser-ruby1.8
+* Install ImageMagick libraries & ruby gem:
+    sudo apt-get install libmagickcore-dev
+    sudo gem install rmagick
+* Install primary keys plugin for active record (minimum version 0.9.1)
+    sudo gem install composite_primary_keys
+* Make sure you have a MTA listening on localhost:25 if you want mail
+    sudo apt-get install exim4
+* Start the server
+    script/server
+* Thats it
+
+=API CHANGES FOR EDITOR AUTHORS
+
+See
+
+The information about the next version of the protocol API 0.6 is available at 
+http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6
+http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/REST
+
+=HACKING
+
+* Log in to your site (proably localhost:3000)
+* Create a user and confirm it (by setting the active flag to true in the users table of the database
+* You want to play with the API (probably at http://localhost:3000/api/0.6/node/create etc)
+* Lots of tests are needed to test the API. To run the tests use 
+    rake test
+* Lots of little things to make the site work like the old one.
+
+=Bugs
+
+See the 'rails_port' component for bugs:
+http://trac.openstreetmap.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=website&order=priority