On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/03/2010 07:52, Jonas Stein wrote: >> On some places are clouds of gps points. (recording reciever indoors) >> These clouds and very bad track data make good tracks invisible. > > If want to see only your own tracks, press Shift+G in Potlatch, or load > the files from a local disk in Merkaartor or JOSM. That way you won't > see the "noisy" tracks. > >> Are there plans to tidy up? > > No. GPS traces are just evidence, or a guide, and shouldn't be > interpreted literally. If they look messy, it's OK, since they're only > used for tracing. The amount of work needed to clean up the traces would > be massive (it would need to be done by hand), and we'd gain very little > -- it doesn't generally affect the accuracy of mapping. > > Some people do clean up their own traces before uploading them, but that > is based on their personal knowledge of which bits of the track are > accurate, and which aren't. It's not something another mapper could do > easily.
I think the tidying up that Jonas means is not tidying up of traces, but tidying up of trace collections. That is, the possibility to not show _all_ traces in an area, but only those that one is interested in. I think that would be an excellent addition. Best would be to have a list of all traces, on which one could select which ones to include and which ones not, but it would also be a great improvement to be able to only see traces from a certain time frame. -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
