[OSM-dev] Should I limit size of GPX files?

Igor Brejc igor.brejc at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 20:23:22 BST 2008


Shaun McDonald wrote:
> So by that assessment, I'm uploading too many points with my cycling, 
> which tends to average around 5 to 12 mph over the whole journey 
> including getting lost, u-turn, looking at the map, breaks, food, and 
> finding no named roads.
>
> Your best bet is to compress the file before uploading. The server will 
> then automatically deal with the compression before importing the files.
>
> Shaun
>   
>
Does anybody know of any good GPS post-processing tools? They would 
eliminate a lot of unneeded stuff before uploading the GPX. I know 
gpsbabel has some filters for this, but they are very basic.

Igor

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