>Sounds nice, but there's one problem: creating OSM ways automatically >from GPS data (without user editing) is not a good idea, for several >reasons: >- GPS (in)precission: it is a good practice to cover certain path >several times before actually creating a way
Do many of us actually do that though? I have to admit I don't, as it would simply take more time than I have available. In the countryside in particular (which is what I was thinking of), one needn't be that bothered about pixel-precision accuracy anyway. And in the town where I live, I find the streets I've created generally match up well with the Yahoo! imagery. >- Depending on your GPS tracking settings, you could end up with a lot >of unnecessary OSM nodes (while standing still, for example). This could >be fixed by some data cleaning SW, I suppose, but it should be taken >into account. The idea was to use some sort of path simplification algorithm to avoid this happening. Nick _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
