<p>I know that this is probably a wrong place to report this issue, but I am not sure where it should stand. <br>
When uploading a GPX trace on openstreemap.org without <code><time></code> field in any <code><trkpt></code> attributes <a href="http://h2096617.stratoserver.net:443/brouter?lonlats=4.277802,49.201224%7C4.31385,49.197859&nogos=&profile=trekking&alternativeidx=0&format=gpx">(for instance this one)</a>, import will fail with following error:</p>

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<p>Found no good GPX points in the input data. At least 75% of the trackpoints lacked a  tag.</p>
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<p>However it seems to me that there is no good reason for such a limitation: this attribute is not mandatory at all in <a href="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd">GPX format specification</a> and should not be used by openstreetmap(?):</p>

<div class="highlight highlight-XML"><pre><<span class="pl-ent">xsd</span><span class="pl-ent">:</span><span class="pl-ent">element</span> <span class="pl-e">name</span>=<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>time<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span> <span class="pl-e">type</span>=<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>xsd:dateTime<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span> <span class="pl-e">minOccurs</span>=<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>0<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>>
<<span class="pl-ent">xsd</span><span class="pl-ent">:</span><span class="pl-ent">annotation</span>><<span class="pl-ent">xsd</span><span class="pl-ent">:</span><span class="pl-ent">documentation</span>>
Creation/modification timestamp for element. Date and time in are in Univeral Coordinated Time (UTC), not local time! Conforms to ISO 8601 specification for date/time representation. Fractional seconds are allowed for millisecond timing in tracklogs. 
</<span class="pl-ent">xsd</span><span class="pl-ent">:</span><span class="pl-ent">documentation</span>></<span class="pl-ent">xsd</span><span class="pl-ent">:</span><span class="pl-ent">annotation</span>></<span class="pl-ent">xsd</span><span class="pl-ent">:</span><span class="pl-ent">element</span>></pre></div>

<p>I can see that <a href="https://github.com/ericfischer/gpx-import">ericfischer's fork</a> did actually remove this in commit <a href="https://github.com/ericfischer/gpx-import/commit/c9eb2d4836ac77c233141722253f51636c9f6267">c9eb2d4836ac</a> but it seems that his version was never merged with <a href="https://git.openstreetmap.org/gpx-import.git/">the official one used by openstreetmap.org</a>? </p>

<p>Even if his fork is not mergeable, could the <code><time></code> check be removed? If not, what is the reason behind it?</p>

<p>Again, sorry for misplacing my issue!</p>

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