On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > >> I just chatted with our server admin TomH and he thinks that the > >> gpsbabel part might best be done on the server side. It's one of his > >> long-term ToDo things anyway. I agree. Rather than getting gpsbabel > >> installed on every users computer, why not make it upload other > formats > >> too and convert on the server side. > > > Thats a great idea .. but what I actually thinking of was some plugin > > to let JOSM do the download from GPS device rather that a long Command > > in CLI( command line interface). > > I think this is the important bit... gpsbabel contains an immense amount > of proprietary protocol/driver code for lots of GPSes. You can't sort > that out on the server, it has to be done client-side. The actual file > conversion could be done server-side but then again, if people want to > process their files in JOSM, they'd have to wait until the server has > finished processing and then retrieve their tracks back from there or > what? > > Frankly I see more problems than merit in a server-side solution. Not > least because nobody in their right mind would upload a proprietary > format GPS file to some server without knowing what's inside... or would > they ;-)? > > Bye > Frederik > Plus, you could end up with a lot of garbage and noise. I carry my GPS with me a lot, and I'm usually not dedicated to mapping, so I get a lot of spurious tracks. I'm going through right now and cleaning up my tracks, cutting out clusters of points where I stopped, etc. If people upload their raw tracks and they go directly into the server, that will eliminate the chance for the tracks to be cleaned up. However, I guess you could say the sort of people that need to upload raw tracks to a server to be translated are not going to be the sort that are inclined to edit their tracks... That's sort of another point--I've already seen a bunch of junk "noisy" tracks in my area. It would be nice if there were a way to remove/filter them. I could create a tracklog that wrote "Hi Mom" or some other less innocent graffiti in GPX and upload it and nobody but the admins would be able to fix/remove it. Karl
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