Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: > Am 23.04.2010 00:07, schrieb Richard Weait: > > >> Yes, the gpxedit (or is it editgpx?) plugin in josm allows this. The >> josm plugin will also display a very helpful and serious warning about >> not converting gpx tracks into ways for openstreetmap. So please >> don't convert gps tracks to ways and upload them to OSM. They don't >> meet the standard of quality that we can accomplish with human >> editing. >> > [...] > > >> You might ask why such a task is possible when it is not recommended. >> (I might ask that as well) I don't know. ;-) >> > > 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. > 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 >
Whilst I fully agree that raw GPX tracks shouldn't be uploaded unedited I disagree with this: > c) *simplify* the way in JOSM before uploading. > The route should be *accuratized* (Is that a word?). Change the route to where you actually went, not where your inaccurate GPS showed. Simplifying makes it less inaccurate. Regards Dave F. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
