On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Kim Hawtin <kim.haw...@adelaide.edu.au>wrote:
> hi maning, > > maning sambale wrote: > > JOSM is an excellent data editing tool (hey I also love potlatch!). > > Many of of its features I would love integrated in some FOSS GIS > > editing toolbox. > > That being said, are there user cases where JOSM is used outside OSM > > as a GIS editing app? Please share your experiences. > > what i'd really like is a mode where i can edit the GPS trails. > just top and tailing the junk off the ends where the GPS was started > and stopped, any time where you are are effectively indoors... > also splitting large GPS trails into smaller more manageable sections. > > one of the issues i have is that i can spend a fair bit of time > trailing and can upload those trails, but don't always have the > notes to go with to identify the specific journey. you have to upload > the trail to the web site before you know where it is, and them edit > the other attributes to go with it. so being able to use josm to get > your bearings about which GPS trail it is before uploading it would > be handy... > > this may not be what you had in mind, but a .gpx editor/manager would > help a lot to get more of my trails up so folks can make use of them =) > > regards, > > kim > I agree, a simple GPX editor (basically to split or merge tracks, and possibly to upload to OSM) integrated into JOSM would be ideal. In the meantime, there's Viking (viking.sourceforge.net), a GPS data management software which supports a number of OSM layers as background and allows uploading GPX tracks to OSM. Karl
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