[OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Sat Sep 20 18:52:43 BST 2008


When you switch on a Garmin and it's making a GPX, and yesterday you  
were in another continent / town.... it puts the first point of the  
new GPX for today as the last known point from when you turned it on  
previously.

That's wonderful, but:

Potlatch starts you at the first point on the GPX and tries hard to  
zoom out, so you are editing 3,000 miles from where you want to edit  
at too high a zoom.

suggested fix: start at the last point, or the 2nd point if there is a  
big jump between 1 and 2, and start at a reasonable zoom level so it  
doesn't try loading huge amounts off the bat.

Best

Steve





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