Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: > For areas where there aren't that many roads and you are at > first travelling great distances it's quite handy to have a gpx > to osm convert function, because tracing some hundred miles > from gpx track *is* tedious.
Exactly. Urban mappers might not need to use it but it's a huge time-saver for us rural types. > So in my experience the only way to sensibly use the gpx->OSM > way feature is to > a) preprocess the GPX (remove stops, remove obvious junk, > basically keeping only the stretch of road you're really interested in) > b) convert to OSM Way > c) *simplify* the way in JOSM before uploading. Note that Potlatch's GPX-to-ways feature automatically does c) (you don't get any choice) and 'locks' the way to encourage you to do a) before unlocking. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Converting-GPX-to-ways-tp4947330p4961986.html Sent from the Newbies mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
