Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-30 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Cartinus wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009 15:20:26 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: That's because JOSM has a feature to automatically connect points that are near each other, but that's as far as it goes since it can't get any track information from the server. So while these new ideas give

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-30 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
David Earl wrote: 2009/7/29 Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de: And no, I don't think the solution is to dropping those traces, but eg being able to connect traces along a path rather than having a big cloud of independent points would make them much more useful to me already. Isn't the

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: but I agree with Frederik that the GPS traces as they are now and not overly useful to me, I stopped downloading existing traces and rely on my local ones instead. Downloading a point cloud without being able to connect the

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Cartinus
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 14:42:05 Sebastian Spaeth wrote: being able to connect traces along a path rather than having a big cloud of independent points would make them much more useful to me already. I don't know what you use to view them, but when I download GPS data with JOSM then the

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/29 Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de: And no, I don't think the solution is to dropping those traces, but eg being able to connect traces along a path rather than having a big cloud of independent points would make them much more useful to me already. that's completely true.

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: (b) potlatch? You can't move the aerial-layer (AFAIK) Yes you can - hold space and drag. you can't zoom in closely Yes you can - up to zoom 19. If you need more than that for tracing then you must have professional survey-grade GPS equipment and be walking very

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/29 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: that's completely true. Another aspect of the problem is people setting their gps instead of 1p/sec to 1p/10meters or even more, so that you can't get a clue which points belong to the same track. I'm beginning to

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Cartinus
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 15:20:26 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: That's because JOSM has a feature to automatically connect points that are near each other, but that's as far as it goes since it can't get any track information from the server. On Wednesday 29 July 2009 15:20:59 Martin

[OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, René Affourtitraffour...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to break the threading I can break threading too! So when a junction is reconstructed a local user can place a bounding box over that junction and all GPS points in that box are marked as outdated (or deleted,

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 28 Jul 2009, at 16:08, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: To be honest, I think that GPS traces are horribly overrated and will only further diminish in importance for OSM. I wouldn't spend a lot of time reinventing anything to do with GPS traces. Why's that? For those of

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Igor Brejc
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: To be honest, I think that GPS traces are horribly overrated and will only further diminish in importance for OSM. I wouldn't spend a lot of time reinventing anything to do with GPS traces. Why's that? For those of you in countries

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, once you have inserted the streets, you can easily add details just by knowing the place, add tags and relations to existent geometry, add footways and other objects by knowing the proportions and relative position rather than measuring with gps +

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: May be right but using your GPS != uploading a track Oh yeah, I forget other editors are available. ;) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Thoughts-on-an-enhanced-GPX-api-tp24696667p24702340.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Dev mailing