On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:43 AM, René Affourtit<raffour...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð > Bjarmason<ava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a lot of GPX tracks that could be improved, e.g. by deleting >> point clouds. I'd like to edit them using normal OSM tools, have those >> edits versioned (so they can be rolled back), and have other users do >> those fixes for me. Just like with the OSM data I upload. > > In my opinion traces should be cleaned up before being uploaded, > however I confess that I often don't do that :-)
I currently have 61 MB of uploaded traces and 22 MB of un-uploaded ones. Some of those 61 MB have point clouds & other unoptimal features. If I was really particular about what I'd upload that ratio would be closer to 22 MB uploaded & 61 un-uploaded because I simply can't be bothered to do all that post-processing. Which is why I'd like to have infrastructure for doing that collaboratively so that I can offload the task to someone who's more keen to do it :) Currently when I'm editing data based on my traces I: * Upload my GPX trace to the site * Open JOSM with my *local* trace (since I can only get a point cloud from the site * Edit data based on it and cringe when I see things like point clouds, but I don't fix them because I can't be bothered to: * Open another program to edit my GPX tracks (I know about the EditGPX plugin b.t.w.) * Go to the OSM website -> delete my track -> re-upload it (& copy/paste all the track info because there's no "replace track" feature) In fact I often skip the first step and upload my tracks months later when I can get to it. That's because there's no direct benefit for my to upload my tracks to the site at all if I'm using on offline editor. The only advantage is to make it available for others for later reference & to use osm.org as a free host for GPX tracks. I often see users who are using JOSM or another offline editor whose edits suggest that they're editing things based on GPX tracks even though they have no tracks uploaded, unsurprisingly as they probably can't see the how it benefits them. Instead what I'd like the workflow outlined above to look like is: * Upload my track to OSM site * Open JOSM -> My uploaded tracks -> Download Then I'd get a view with the OSM data in the foreground and my trace in the background. When I'd edit the OSM data I could easily pop into the GPX layer and do things like delete point clouds & uplod them with a message "deleted some useless point cloud points" (which would show up in the revision log for the track). When editing maybe I'd see tracks from user xxyyzz notice that his track track partly goes across a way which I just surveyed s being demolished. I could then pop in and edit that as easily as a normal OSM way and add a tag indicating that that segment of xxyyzz's covers a feature that doesn't exist anymore. Although the rest of it is presumably OK. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk