Frederik Ramm wrote: > To be honest, I think that GPS traces are horribly overrated and > will only further diminish in importance for OSM. I wouldn't spend > a lot of time reinventing anything to do with GPS traces.
Why's that? For those of you in countries with NMAs that release things, or in urban areas where there's satellite imagery, maybe you can do without them. But in 95% of the British land mass there is no other way of mapping. Personally I'd like to see _more_ emphasis on going out there with a GPS, and less on "oh, we'll find an import" or "oh, you can do it from satellite imagery". OSM as an agglomeration of imports is little more than one of those terrible "geodata catalogs" that seem to be discussed interminably on OSGeo mailing lists. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Thoughts-on-an-enhanced-GPX-api-tp24696667p24700826.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
