David Earl wrote: > 2009/7/29 Sebastian Spaeth <sebast...@sspaeth.de>: >> And no, I don't think the solution is to dropping those traces, but eg >> being able to connect traces along a path rather than having a big cloud >> of independent points would make them much more useful to me already.
> Isn't the point of the GPX traces not mainly to be able to make them
> available to other people to make sense of, but to
> (a) provide evidence of data source for possible copyright infringement
> accusations,
OK, but for that I don't need them in JOSM when mapping. And downloading
clouds of points is probably not of much use to a judge either :-).
("Mylord, see those spots that look like London having measles prove
that we didn't copy from google maps." :-) )
according to (a) others' traces would indeed be not useful for mapping then?
> (b) provide the trace for your own editing in Potlatch.
(b) might be true, I never used Potlatch with GPS data. Does it show all
points or only your own?
spaetz
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