Christopher, If it's Birmingham then I'm interested and can guide you :-)
Will get in touch off list. Cheers Andy (blackadder) >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbies- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods >Sent: 22 January 2008 10:36 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OSM-newbies] Donation of GPS logs for processing - anybody do >this? > >About 18 months ago, I drove around parts of the central Birmingham with my >GPS unit recording some logs. I imported them into JOSM, but was >overwhemled with the fiddliness and complexity of the app, and while I >didn't want to be handheld through all the steps (I did follow the wiki and >other instructions best I could) I didn't feel that I could accurately >upload the data I'd recorded without either corrupting or overwriting >existing good data. > >I'm still willing to upload the data, in fact I still record tracks >occasionally while I'm driving and I'd very much like to upload them (for >example, I also have some (sadly not quite complete) logs from last year's >journey all the way to the French Alps for my holidays, a total of almost a >thousand miles I think, where the GPS software worked and the app didn't >mess up or crash!) I just don't have the time or knowledge of JOSM (or >other submission apps) to competently and confidently upload all this data, >so I'm looking for people to either help or take some of the logs and see >what they can do with them. > >There's some obvious errors with some of the Brum stuff - I got caught in a >traffic jam at one point so I got that funny zig-zag line (which the >sirfstar3 chipset is known for, I believe) when I was travelling too slowly >for it to accurately pinpoint where I was going exactly - I'm somewhat sure >I can fix that because I also know the aerial view of the roads quite well >(and it's not rocket science to trace the line using the aerial map >overlay), but again, I need help. > >Can't believe I've held off from sending this message in for such a long >time! > >I'm also willing to just upload the tracks and let people have a crack at >them, but equally if someone wants to periodically help me then I'd be >quite happy to accept any help offered. (I'm a pretty competent PC user, >having used, owned, built, maintained and repaired the things for over a >decade, and I consider myself to be a fully-immersed ubergeek - I'm just >totally inept when it comes to JOSM, the thing scares me! ;) > >Cheers guys, >Christopher _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
