[OSM-newbies] Managing waypoints

[Thomas Wood]

2009/5/23 Donald Campbell II <donaciano2000 at gmail.com>:
> So yesterday I was finally able to make a trip to a village about an hour
> south of me, it took a while to get a car and driver arranged.  I have a
> friend there who sees the importance of getting a map done (they have NONE
> in that area) and who was happy to drive us all around.
>
> While I'm tagging and taking notes, I start getting a "Calendar memory full"
> error on the Garmin eTrex HCx.  I remembered that it's been a while since
> I've downloaded my waypoints, so after the trip is over I get back home and
> notice my last GPSBabel import of waypoints was EXACTLY 1 month ago.
> Whooops!
>
> The reason is it's such a pain to go through a large set of waypoints and
> make sure I got them all, trying to remember what I meant at the time,
> etc...
>
> I can sit here for an hour every few days and catch up on the tracks but the
> waypoints are a huge time sink for me.
>
> So I'm asking the more experienced guys here, how do you manage them?  I'm
> using JOSM for this, but I can try other software if it'll help.  Is there
> some way I can put all my waypoints into a list where I can delete them one
> by one as they're done? As waypoints are imported in JOSM I can't edit them,
> so if I have a large group of them there I have to manually zoom in and
> verify each one, but it's easy to miss some.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -DC

My standard technique is to import all data from the GPS with
GPSBabel, and then empty the GPS ready for next time (I also have a
yellow etrex, with a very small memory, so I have to)
When mapping (in JOSM), I go through my hand written notes in the
order I made them, each line on the paper is for a waypoint on the GPS
with extra notes to the right of the page. I follow the trace in the
order I made it, so to help myself recall what I saw.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)