2009/5/23 Donald Campbell II <[email protected]>: > So yesterday I was finally able to make a trip to a village about an hour > south of me, it took a while to get a car and driver arranged. I have a > friend there who sees the importance of getting a map done (they have NONE > in that area) and who was happy to drive us all around. > > While I'm tagging and taking notes, I start getting a "Calendar memory full" > error on the Garmin eTrex HCx. I remembered that it's been a while since > I've downloaded my waypoints, so after the trip is over I get back home and > notice my last GPSBabel import of waypoints was EXACTLY 1 month ago. > Whooops! > > The reason is it's such a pain to go through a large set of waypoints and > make sure I got them all, trying to remember what I meant at the time, > etc... > > I can sit here for an hour every few days and catch up on the tracks but the > waypoints are a huge time sink for me. > > So I'm asking the more experienced guys here, how do you manage them? I'm > using JOSM for this, but I can try other software if it'll help. Is there > some way I can put all my waypoints into a list where I can delete them one > by one as they're done? As waypoints are imported in JOSM I can't edit them, > so if I have a large group of them there I have to manually zoom in and > verify each one, but it's easy to miss some. > > Any ideas appreciated. > > Thanks, > -DC
My standard technique is to import all data from the GPS with GPSBabel, and then empty the GPS ready for next time (I also have a yellow etrex, with a very small memory, so I have to) When mapping (in JOSM), I go through my hand written notes in the order I made them, each line on the paper is for a waypoint on the GPS with extra notes to the right of the page. I follow the trace in the order I made it, so to help myself recall what I saw. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
