At 10:47 AM 15/10/2008, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >Moved from newbies@ to talk@, followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >James Ewen wrote: > >> In this part of the world, the best >> way I have found to collect road data is to drive the road, convert >> the track to locked ways, cut the track into small segments that >> Potlatch will convert, tie them all back together, and finally connect >> any intersections that might exist. >> [...] >> In a similar fashion, I find myself wanting to know the source of the >> GPS trace that runs through an area where I would like to fix up the >> highway. >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/11997267 >> >> Allan Rasmussen has traced out Highway 93 by hand from low resolution >> imagery, but someone has driven the highway and uploaded a GPS trace >> which describes the true course of the highway in greater detail and >> accuracy. If I could find the GPS trace, I could convert it into a >> locked way, and from there create a better description of highway 93 >> for inclusion in the OSM database. >> [...] >> I do not see how privacy concerns can be an issue either. The >> information collected has been voluntarily uploaded and inserted into >> the OSM database by the user, only the final step of converting the >> raw data into OSM ways has not been completed. > >To recap: > >James would like an option in Potlatch to be able to convert public >GPS data from the database into a way. At present, of course, you can >do that with a GPS track from the list by clicking the 'edit' link >alongside; but if you don't know what track it is, yet you can see it >on the map, you're a bit stuck. > >I personally wouldn't have a problem with implementing this and would >find it useful. However, privacy concerns have often been raised about >This Sort Of Thing. I'd be interested to hear people's views.
A personal opinion of course, but for me the privacy thing can go Too Far. Any security issues should be dealt with by the person uploading the data and there is a choice whether to click the Public button. After that free as in beer and liberty I say, the more use made of them the better. So thumbs up from me. [Me, I'll still stick to manual tracing though but I am sure there is something Amazingly Wonderful to be done with our huge accumulating library of GPS tracks, still thinking though.] Mike _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
