On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
>> I just chatted with our server admin TomH and he thinks that the<br>
>> gpsbabel part might best be done on the server side. It's one of his<br>
>> long-term ToDo things anyway. I agree. Rather than getting gpsbabel<br>
>> installed on every users computer, why not make it upload other formats<br>
>> too and convert on the server side.<br>
<br>
> Thats a great idea .. but what I actually thinking of was some plugin<br>
> to let JOSM do the download from GPS device rather that a long Command<br>
> in CLI( command line interface).<br>
<br>
I think this is the important bit... gpsbabel contains an immense amount<br>
of proprietary protocol/driver code for lots of GPSes. You can't sort<br>
that out on the server, it has to be done client-side. The actual file<br>
conversion could be done server-side but then again, if people want to<br>
process their files in JOSM, they'd have to wait until the server has<br>
finished processing and then retrieve their tracks back from there or what?<br>
<br>
Frankly I see more problems than merit in a server-side solution. Not<br>
least because nobody in their right mind would upload a proprietary<br>
format GPS file to some server without knowing what's inside... or would<br>
they ;-)?<br>
<br>
Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Plus, you could end up with a lot of garbage and noise. I carry my GPS with me a lot, and I'm usually not dedicated to mapping, so I get a lot of spurious tracks. I'm going through right now and cleaning up my tracks, cutting out clusters of points where I stopped, etc. If people upload their raw tracks and they go directly into the server, that will eliminate the chance for the tracks to be cleaned up. However, I guess you could say the sort of people that need to upload raw tracks to a server to be translated are not going to be the sort that are inclined to edit their tracks... That's sort of another point--I've already seen a bunch of junk "noisy" tracks in my area. It would be nice if there were a way to remove/filter them. I could create a tracklog that wrote "Hi Mom" or some other less innocent graffiti in GPX and upload it and nobody but the admins would be able to fix/remove it.<br>
<br>Karl<br>