OK, that sounds like a go-ahead to me!! I'm a bit wary of uploading tracks to OSM as at many points along the route we pulled into pullouts - these were all logged, so will show up on the trace as a slight 'dent' in the road, which someone could interpret as the actual highway. I have a log myself of most of the pullouts/POI's we entered, but this is a txt file. What I propose is that I upload the tracks one by one as and when I've traced them/updated the existing road.
Another thing - is there a convention on GPX track names? Mine are all date-time.gpx: nothing descriptive. Will this do when uploaded? Thanks Tim On 31/08/09 01:00, Steve Singer wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Tim Francois wrote: > > > Tim, > > My understanding is that many of the major highways in your trip were > mapped from aerial imagery, so a 1 point per second gps trace is > probably more accurate. Uploading your gpx tracks to OSM so others > can see them as a datasource for tracing/ would be good. If based on > your traces/having been there that you feel any roads should be > adjusted in OSM that you should feel free to do so as well (respecting > standard OSM map editting etiquette etc...) > > > There is a larger project to import roads from a government database > (Geobase) but right now we don't have any automated techniques for > improving existing roads (just adding new ones), sometimes a good GPS > trace is better than this data anyway. > > >> Hi all, >> >> I live in the UK, but parents live in Calgary. This summer we went on a >> somewhat extended roadtrip, taking in Alberta, BC, Yukon and Alaska. I >> had my netbook and GPS mouse with me and logged pretty much the entire >> trip, checking the OSM map accuracy using Navit (on Linux). Some major >> roads we traveled include: >> >> - Trans-Canada from Calgary to Vancouver >> - Highway 4(a) on Vancouver Island from Parksville (Nanaimo) to >> Tofino/Ucluelet >> - Highway 19 Parksville to Port Hardy (including little bit around >> Telegraph Cove) >> - Highway 16 from Prince Rupert to Highway 37 (Cassiar Highway) >> intersection >> - Cassiar Highway (37) from Highway 16 up to Alaska Highway intersection >> (including road to Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK) >> - Almost entire Alaska Highway from Tok, AK to mile 0 in Dawson Creek >> - All Highways on the Klondike loop, including: >> -- Highway 2 (Klondike Highway) from Dawson City to Alaska Highway >> -- Highway 11 (Silver Trail) from Stewart Crossing to Keno >> -- Highway 9 (Top of the World Highway) from Dawson City to USA border >> -- Relevant highways in Alaska, though that's not for this mailing list >> - Dempster Highway from mile 0 into NWT >> - Highway sections from Dawson Creek to Calgary (via Highway 22) >> >> So I have GPX files for almost the entire trip, with a point logged >> every second. My questions: >> 1) All of the highways are on OSM in one form or another, but I'm >> assuming most were not added via GPX points. When following on Navit the >> mapped road sometimes varied substantially from the actual road. Is this >> a correct assumption? >> 2) If 1) is correct, is it then OK to improve all these highways with >> the GPX tracks? >> 3) Is someone else already doing this, or is there a larger project >> ongoing under which this should be maintained? >> >> Any info/input is gratefully received - I don't want to start updating >> things and then realise I'm treading on someone else's toes!! >> >> Thanks >> Tim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
