[off-list] David, can you send me a sample file? I'd be happy to write something that consumes a GPX file and tries to pull out the points that are clumped together like that.
Or maybe you've already figured out a solution to your problem and don't need such a thing. Let me know, Ian On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Ebling <[email protected]>wrote: > > During the downtime I figured I should really catch up with cleaning up my > huge backlog of GPX files and prepare them for upload. I have many many > hours of tracks on my HDD that I have not uploaded because many of them are > polluted with point clouds around my house and my relatives' houses. I am > not happy to upload these for privacy reasons and also for data purity > reasons. > > I am not very command line compatible, and can't find *any* gui tool for > Mac or Windows that will let me do this. GPX Babel only seems to let you > remove points outside a radius not inside the radius, unless you use the > exclude option which appears to be command line only. It also takes lat and > long in an annoying format (decimal minutes, neither decimal degrees nor > degrees, minutes and seconds.) It also seems only to be able to process one > file at a time on the Mac version I've played with. > > Is there any program out there that will do this easily? If not OSM would > really benefit from one, as I think there are many people like me who aren't > uploading GPX because cleaning them up is simply too much effort. Here's my > idea for someone with more programming skills than me: > > -A dialogue box that uses an OSM slippy map to draw circles of exclusion on > the map, with a guidance note suggesting that they are near and covering but > not exactly centred on your home/work/other point cloud locations. > -Ability to batch process that's user friendly > -Output to a new folder > -Ideally, upload direct to OSM, to be considerate to other users, perhaps > over a specified time interval. > > Any programmers out there want to take up this idea while we have some down > time? :D Please? :) I'll upload lots of GPX files in return! ;) > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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