[OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

[Igor Brejc]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> I think the reason for GPS Trace from the API being less important 
> (rather than using a GPS in general) is because there will be so many 
> of them that there will be too much noise in places, and the map will 
> be nearing completion.
>
> I do agree that people should be heading out on the ground to map 
> rather than looking for import. It will be more likely that people 
> will be using things like walking papers than a GPS Trace to do the 
> mapping.
>
> Shaun
That's still very far off for the part of the world I live in, so I 
wouldn't worry too much about the future of GPX.  As for noise I agree, 
tools like JOSM (or the API) should have some sort of filtering to 
exclude old traces when the number of traces reaches a certain 
threshold. Maybe they already do that?

Igor

p.s. maybe you just mapped your places too fast? :)

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