At 03:21 PM 10/9/2007, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Rick Collins schrieb: > > At 11:57 AM 10/9/2007, you wrote: > > > >> It's a common way of thinking about things, and there's been many > >> projects tried doing this in the past, and none of them got > >> particularly far. The way that we are doing things - treating GPS logs > >> and various imagery as mere backgrounds to be manually traced over - > >> has proven to be stunningly more successful than throwing raw GPS data > >> and raw computing power together and hoping for the best. > > > > Yes, I can see that. It would take a significant effort in software > > design. However, it would greatly reduce the amount of effort for > > getting data into a useful form. The current OSM method seems > very tedious. > >Developers are scarce, users are plentiful, so there is basically not a >shortage of people drawing over backgrounds (be it imagery or gpx >tracks) on the other hand there's not many people with the resources to >program this. >Especially since some GPX errors are not easily spotted by an automated >process, and if you need too many traces it's actually cheaper in human >time to draw by hand instead of collecting many tracks so you can >auto-average them.
Yes, but there is a middle ground where a user does not have to manually enter every point that goes into the system. I can collect 100 tracks with less effort than I can edit just one. But I was told about a command that converts the GPX data directly into OSM data. So that is the first step I was looking for. Manually entering every point is an absurd use of human resources and would ultimately limit the capability of the project. > > If I can't get JOSM to work well, I might just work on a program to > > automatically convert GPX to OSM format. The mass processing of > > multiple collected data sets may not be currently feasible, but JOSM > > just requires too much hand work. It would take many hours for me to > > make a useful contribution this way and I just don't have the time. > > > > But I am not done trying JOSM yet. We'll see how that goes once > > things are back up at the web site. > >You might want to take a look at osmtrackfilter, although I'm not sure >it's 0.5 ready yet. Thanks, I'll look for that. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
