[OSM-dev] Another mobile mapping question...

[Stefan de Konink]

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Nick Whitelegg schreef:
> A related question to the "Opentrail" project - it might be good for 
> walkers to be able to automatically convert their GPS trail to a path "in 
> the field" so to speak, using some sort of track simplification algorithm, 
> then upload it to OSM "on the move", specifying the path type, i.e. 
> footway, bridleway, cycleway etc.  Would such functionality be within the 
> capabilities of current mobile devices with onboard GPS, such as the N95? 

The research project 'Mapgeneration'

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapgenerator


Did exactly this. In the past I have even wondered why people are still
doing everything by hand if you can trace (and update!) everything by
just GPS traces. In essence you would like to have something like an
'uncorrected' server and a production server, so you can have a hand
corrected map and a 'collectors' map.

Maybe it is possible to make a layer of automatically traced data?



Stefan
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