A possible revised approach (which would be relatively easily implementable) could be to allow users to create the way in-app by tapping along their GPX trace - this way the user can disregard any obvious anomalies. The tapped points could then be autoconverted to OSM ways and added to existing ways using much the same code as the current approach.
The main goal of the app is to produce something (hopefully) easy to use which allows users to survey and to add to OSM in one place, and to hide the details of tagging by allowing a user to select ROW designation (footpath, bridleway etc) and route type (grass path, dirt path, track etc) which are converted automatically to appropriate highway, designation and surface tags. The actual GPX traces (or specifically, the individual <trkseg> segments) are tagged using OSM tags as the user does the survey. Nick ________________________________ From: Dave F <[email protected]> Sent: 27 July 2018 16:15:26 To: [email protected] Cc: Nick Whitelegg Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths update - GB1900 footpath locations Hi Can I please urge caution if using this feature. GPS traces are rarely accurate enough in their raw state to be included directly. Dense woods, deep valleys & solar winds etc will all introduce errors into the traces & walkers will often wander 'off-piste' when crossing fields. Using an editor allows comparisons with existing traces. >From experience of my own & other user's traces, you can often end up spending >more time & effort editing the uploaded way than tracing over it. Cheers DaveF On 26/07/2018 17:21, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hello everyone, Also coming soon - a MapThePaths app which will allow users to survey footpaths via GPS and automatically add them to OSM without the need for a separate editor. An initial version of this is almost ready but just needs a bit of debugging and testing.
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