When you make a single GPS log that covers several different 'sessions', turning the GPS receiver off between each, then the track will have jumps in it. The OSM site displays a little picture of each log, but when the log has a jumps the picture becomes just a straight line. It would be cool if, on seeing that the GPS log has a gap of several kilometres between one point and the next, the uploader would split it into separate tracks.
Additionally, when you upload a track you should be able to specify how it was made, with checkboxes for 'foot', 'bike', 'car', 'boat', 'plane'. (If it has a mixture, tick several boxes.) That would avoid confusion from aeroplane logs that don't correspond to land features, and when enough data was collected, it would be possible to spot roads misclassified as footways, incorrect one-ways, and so on. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
