Hi all,

Thanks for all the great advice. I’ve looked into uMap and it does the job 
perfectly. With all the gpx of over a year of hiking imported it still runs 
smoothly.
I would like to prevent running into performance issues later though. Does 
anybody know if it is wise to add ‘simplified’ versions of the gpx to uMap 
instead of the original recordings with 1 s resolution?

Since the published data is public, I just have to take into account not to 
import gpx which start from my home since I value my ‘sort of anonymity’.

@Oleksiy
To answer Oleksiy’s question, I record with OSMand on a Moto G4 smartphone, 
that works like a charm. Off course there is fluctuation due to accuracy 
errors, I guess 10-15 m is achievable most of the time, but close to near 
vertical mountains it becomes much worse.

It however does never happen that I miss long stretches of data (except for 
tunnels 😝). I did have that problem in the past, when <15% battery charge and 
Android automatically started the battery saving mode. That just turned of the 
gps antenna whenever the screen was off. So now I have set battery saving mode 
to off.

Also OSMand does not drain the battery much. Usually I do take a lot of notes 
which OSMand attaches to the gpx and loads perfectly into JOSM. Recently I also 
used the voice recorder of OSMand, which really speeds up the note taking while 
on the go in comparison to typing. These also load into JOSM via the gpx, but 
some fiddling with the location of the audio is required. Taking notes on the 
phone does have an effect on the battery life off course. A 20 km hike in the 
mountains easily takes 6-8h, which my phone reaches most of the time on one 
charge in flight mode. I do have a power-bank as back-up, and for multi-day 
hikes though.

Altitude measurements have always been a bit tricky with OSMand. I guess the 
raw elevation data from gps fluctuates quite a lot, and the data processing did 
not do a good job filtering errors from actual elevation change. After a hike 
with 1000m elevation gain according to the map, OSMand often showed I did 
5000m... The graph of the track you can generate in OSMand also showed a lot of 
spikes with instant ascents of >200m. Recently that seems to have changed and 
the measurements seem to better represent the actual situation.

Hope this helps you with you work OSM workflow!

Cheers,
dikkeknodel


Van: Oleksiy Muzalyev<mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>
Verzonden: zaterdag 3 november 2018 18:51
Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] How to get an overview of multiple gpx on OSM map?

Hi _dikkeknodel,

I have a question - how do you record a GPX trace during 20 km walk? It should 
be about 4 hours.

I also record GPS traces but usually for 15-20 minutes. I use a phone with the 
OSMTracker app for Android with mixed results. Sometimes it records a path 
well, sometimes it turns the second part of the walk into a long direct line. 
Such a trace I usually discard.

Besides it empties the phone battery rather quickly. I usually take a 
power-bank with me, but still it is not a good solution to get a phone battery 
empty in mountains.

I am thinking of getting a dedicated device which can record the GPX files, on 
the OSM map, and also measure and altitude more or less correctly. The question 
is - what device, what model.

Best regards,
Oleksiy


On 03.11.18 16:09, _ dikkeknodel wrote:
Hi all,

Ever since I moved to Switzerland over a year ago I’ve been both hiking in the 
mountains and updating OSM details a lot. Since I hike at least 20 km every 
weekend, it must have totaled to about 1200 km by now all across the country. I 
would love to get an overview of where I have been so far.

Since I’ve got a GPX file of almost every hike, the data is there. I am now 
looking for a nice graphical way to plot all of these files at once on a nice 
OSM map, OpenTopoMap as a base layer would be great.
I’ve been searching for a while how to arrange this (without much programming 
knowledge), but I am kind of lost at the moment.

Does anybody have a hint?

Cheers,
dikkeknodel




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