When uploading your traces you can name and tag them to ensure they would be identified as coming from you. For this you could also have a maproulette challenge. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
On 4 April 2019 9:45:15 am AEDT, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 16:00, James Nuccio <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> I'm relatively new to using and contributing to OSM but must say I'm >> really getting into it. I am currently building a navigation app >targeted >> towards the 4wding market which makes use of OSM. Part of our >offering is >> to geo-track our users as they navigate through the bush to better >> understand the 4wd tracks themselves. >> > >Welcome! > >Have you seen the smoothness tag? >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness It can be used to >flag >how "off-road" a track is. > > >> A byproduct of this process is that we have hundred of traces to be >able >> to validate the geometry of current tracks, as well as add new tracks >to >> the database. All of these traces are an aggregation of user data, >not >> traces of individual users. >> >> I am keen to get this info back into OSM but I'm looking for help as >I >> don't have capacity to do so myself. However I'd still like the >> contributions to be entered under my OSM userid. >> > >Just to add to what David said, the OSM gps traces are at >https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces, if you choose those traces will >be >entered under your OSM username. > >This then immediately makes your data available to OSM editors who can >use >the traces to improve geometry of ways, identify and add in missing >tracks >etc from your traces, to be entered under each mapper's OSM username. > >Alternatively you could go with Sebastian's suggestion which would keep >your gps traces separate from all the other traces submitted to OSM. > >With those gps traces available, either you or the community could run >a >process to flag areas where OSM and your traces differ and create new >maproulette.org tasks, like Sebastian suggested. Any edits though will >fall >under the actual mapper's username.
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