[OSM-talk] Filtering GPX tracks when they're good enough to make ways from but contain too many points

I've succeeded in uploading a large portion of my GPX tracks from Mexico South America and now would like to map out some of the highways. In many portions the GPX track (when converted to a data layer) is good enough for a way--the only sticking point is that there are way too many data points.

Re: [OSM-talk] Filtering GPX tracks when they're good enough to make ways from but contain too many points

Simplify way in JOSM does it (lowermost icon on the left toolbar, if memory serves me well). Stefan On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Beau Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've succeeded in uploading a large portion of my GPX tracks from Mexico South America and now would like to map out

Re: [OSM-talk] Filtering GPX tracks when they're good enough to make ways from but contain too many points

Stefan Baebler wrote: Simplify way in JOSM does it (lowermost icon on the left toolbar, if memory serves me well). Similarly, if you load the track directly into Potlatch (by clicking on 'edit' in the 'GPS Traces' page), you can then click the 'Track' button to convert it directly into a

Re: [OSM-talk] Filtering GPX tracks when they're good enough to make ways from but contain too many points

Ah, excellent! Looks like this is part of 'utilsplugin', I didn't have that installed previously. :) I upped the value of this knob on the Einstein page to 250 and got good results (the default in the code was 50): simplify-way.max-error Thanks, Beau On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:36 AM,