Bouncing to newbies where people should be able to help.. On 21 Jul 2009, at 10:26, chris legg wrote:
> Hi Steve, > > I am very sorry to bother you, but none of the other contacts seemed > appropriate. > > I am new to OSM, but have been in the GIS/GPS business for more than > 20 years, and have mapped tracks in many countries. I decided to try > to upload a couple of maps for areas where OSM has no current maps, > Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. I did > not have the original GPX files for either of these. For Eastern > Congo, I had downloaded data from five different GPS units that all > went out on field work on the same day. This was in the form of > delimited text files. I use DNR Garmin to download data, and also to > convert GPS data between different file formats. I used Excel to > combine the five text files, then created a Shapefile from it, and > converted the shapefile to GPX using DNR Garmin. Every record (about > 12,000 of them) had time stamps. For Equatorial Guinea (Bioko > island) the data was originally recorded on a PDA using a bluetoth > GPS, and was not in GPX format. I created time-stamps in standard > GPX format using the hour-minute-second data from the PDA, and again > went to GPX via shapefile. > > The data all uploaded successfully to OSM a couple of days ago, and > I got the appropriate messages. I looked for the data a couple of > times, but assumed that it was taking a while to be displayed. > Finally, I used the My Traces option, and selected map. Both data > sets appear to be out in the Atlantic somewhere, but very small and > invisible. I have re-checked the data. What appears to have happened > is that DNR Garmin has added new fields for projected lat and long, > placed the real lat long values on these fields, and placed some > kind of re-projected values in the old lat long fields. I assume > that OSM works automatically, and assumes that the lat long values > are correct if all the other criteria are met. > > I would like to delete this data, and will try to re-format so that > lat long values are in the correct named fields. > > Cheers, > > Chris Legg Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
