[OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> Personally I'd like to see _more_ emphasis on going out there with a  
> GPS,
> and less on "oh, we'll find an import" or "oh, you can do it from  
> satellite
> imagery". OSM as an agglomeration of imports is little more than one  
> of
> those terrible "geodata catalogs" that seem to be discussed  
> interminably on
> OSGeo mailing lists.

very true. some imports are just  "more is better", without  
documentation on the wiki, unclear source, duplicates, old data, .....