Re: [talk-au] How many points are too few to upload?

2009-06-17 Thread Ross Scanlon
the other hand you can get 10,000+ point files being uploaded as well and I need to run gpsbabel over the file before uploading it. Does anyone know if this is a good filter to use against gpx files? gpsbabel -i gpx -f test -x simplify,crosstrack,error=0.0001k -o gpx -F test.gpx

Re: [talk-au] How many points are too few to upload?

2009-06-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 18/6/09, Peter Ross pe...@emailross.com wrote: In that case I can't help you whether it's a good idea or not. Generally I upload all my points to OSM and then let other people decide whether or not they want to filter them. I have no problem doing that, but I thought I was

Re: [talk-au] How many points are too few to upload?

2009-06-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 18/6/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Have you loaded both into josm and seen how they compare? That would give you an idication on how the filter affects the data. No I hadn't, but I'm in the process of doing it now. I was hoping for a common consensus, if there was

Re: [talk-au] How many points are too few to upload?

2009-06-17 Thread John Smith
Have you loaded both into josm and seen how they compare? For the most part they are almost identical, but there is a few small differences, although probably not enough that most people would worry about, but the bigger question is how OSM stores them, if they compress the files the