Re: [OSM-newbies] Waypoints in Potlatch (or using gpsbabel)
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Potlatch can handle waypoints, they show up as special POIs you have > to unlock to turn into actual nodes in the database. > > What it doesn't handle, or more specifically the GPX import script, is > GPX tracks that only have a waypoint section. Right, so it looks like for my needs, the right thing to do is just combine the data into one single gpx file. The use case for this, btw, is that in the Washington, DC area, we run mapping parties fairly frequently. We have various GPS units on hand to lend out, and what we've found works best is to take the tracks and waypoints and email the data to the users for input into OSM. I'd been taking the waypoints and tracks separately but as someone pointed out, it's not hard to combine them, so I guess that's what I'll do. Thanks for the help folks, - Serge ___ newbies mailing list newbies@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
Re: [OSM-newbies] Waypoints in Potlatch (or using gpsbabel)
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 19:24, Chris Hunter wrote: > AFAIK, Potlatch can't handle waypoints - Period. I haven't found the > project's trac page, but I suspect it's in the wishlist. > > The latest version of JOSM can handle both tracks and waypoints in the same > GPX file, though. Potlatch can handle waypoints, they show up as special POIs you have to unlock to turn into actual nodes in the database. What it doesn't handle, or more specifically the GPX import script, is GPX tracks that only have a waypoint section. I don't know why that's the case exactly. I've heard that it's to make it harder for people importing e.g. KML waypoints converted to GPX. If that's the case that's silly, it's trivial to work around it and obviously it restricts completely legitimate use, such as the one discussed in this thread. ___ newbies mailing list newbies@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
Re: [OSM-newbies] Waypoints in Potlatch (or using gpsbabel)
AFAIK, Potlatch can't handle waypoints - Period. I haven't found the project's trac page, but I suspect it's in the wishlist. The latest version of JOSM can handle both tracks and waypoints in the same GPX file, though. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 14:12, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > > If you have a waypoint file and a track file like this you can combine > them using GPSbabel: > >gpsbabel -t -w -i gpx -f waypoint.gpx -i gpx -f track.gpx -o gpx > -F merged.gpx > > However that will merge /all/ your waypoints with the track file. On > Garmin devices waypoint dumps can span multiple days but the track > file you get when mounting the device is per-day. > > ___ > newbies mailing list > newbies@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > ___ newbies mailing list newbies@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
Re: [OSM-newbies] Waypoints in Potlatch (or using gpsbabel)
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 14:12, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Every once in a while, I find I have a question which I should know > the answer to... > > For folks who use the Garmin eTrex GPS, there's a two step process I > use to gather the data. > > First, I put the unit into UMS mode and grab the gpx file > corresponding to the date I'm interested in. This gives me the > traces/tracks/breadcrum trail. > > Secondly, I run gpsbabel against the GPS like this: > > gpsbabel -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F foo.gpx > > And that gives me the waypoints. > > My normal method of entering the data into OSM from this is I start up > JOSM and load both sets. > > What would be ideal, though, is if I could load the waypoints into > Potlatch. Unfortunately OSM doesn't let me upload those gpx files > because they're so sparse. > > Is there something I can do to look at the waypoint data in Potlatch? > Some option I've missed? Convert it to another format? Combine the > datasets somehow? If you have a waypoint file and a track file like this you can combine them using GPSbabel: gpsbabel -t -w -i gpx -f waypoint.gpx -i gpx -f track.gpx -o gpx -F merged.gpx However that will merge /all/ your waypoints with the track file. On Garmin devices waypoint dumps can span multiple days but the track file you get when mounting the device is per-day. gpsbabel has a way to filter tracks by start/stop date but I haven't found out how to do the same for waypoint data, I recall someone mentioning that you could do some sourcery like convert the waypoints to a track, filter them and convert them back to achieve that but I haven't tried that or found out how to do it, it would be useful if someone could tell me how. In those cases where I've had a single waypoint file and say gpx files for 10 days I've just merged the waypoints with all of them and then manually deleted the ones that didn't belong in a text editor for each file, tedious, but I don't do it so often that I've gotten around to writing a script to do it / beat gpsbabel into doing it. In any case even if you merge the files like this you'll in the worst case end up with a GPX file with too many waypoints, which doesn't really matter that much usually. ___ newbies mailing list newbies@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
