Thank you all. We can now upload necessary data to OSM. Thanks for your explanations, suggestions and advice :-)
Regards, Ishtiaque On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:31 PM, ael <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:17:06PM +0600, Ishtiaque Ahmed wrote: > > Hello Ael, > > > > We finally could upload the gps file after a number of attempts. Now we > can > > see the taces over OSM. However, the waypoints that we tagged with our > GPS > > unit are not being shown on the map. Is is normal? Or we are missing > > something? > > Eh. Yes, I think so. Why do you expect to see your traces, waypoints or > not, rendered on the map?. > > Traces are uploaded so they help other mappers: consumer gps units are > not very accurate. All gps signals are subject to (essentially random) > errors. More traces allow more precise positioning. > > Another reason for uploading traces is to provide evidence for the > ways (etc). This could be important if it was necessary to prove to > some part of the map was not copied from a copyright source. > > ael > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Ph: +880 2 9345488 (res), +880 1819 428898 (mobile) Personal Website: http://kallol.echoz.com Faculty Webpage: http://www.buet.ac.bd/cse/faculty/facdetail.php?id=kallol
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