[OSM-dev] Attributes info in GPX track to upload to OSM?

[Shaun McDonald]

Hi Emilien,

Those waypoints won't be automatically imported into OpenStreetMap, nor are they stored so that they can be downloaded from the GPX api. They will however show up in the editors when loading the full GPS trace, so that you can copy that information into the osm data.

Shaun

On 28 Sep 2010, at 21:00, Emilien Klein wrote:

> Hi devs,
> 
> I am a happy user of OSMTracker for Android to record my GPS tracks.
> However, once the GPX tracks are uploaded to OSM, the POIs show up
> with the interesting part in the "name" attribute, like this:
> 
> ele: <number>
> name: Post box
> 
> This happens because the info is saved like this in the GPX file:
> 
>       <wpt lat="LAT" lon="LON">
>               <ele>ELEVATION</ele>
>               <time>TIMEDATE</time>
>               <name><![CDATA[Post box]]></name>
>               <sat>NUMBER</sat>
>       </wpt>
> 
> I would love OSMTracker for Android to generate a GPX file that once
> uploaded to OSM would already contain the right "osm-compliant" tags
> ("osm-compliant" as in "defined on the Map Features wiki page").
> Quickly sifting through the GPX documentation [1], it seems to me that
> such a thing is not directly supported (no custom-named XML node).
> 
> My question is if there's a way to make such a thing work. Some ideas:
> - Is there any OSM-specific extension defined to pass such information?
> - Or is there an agreed-upon way of putting that information in for
> instance the "desc" element? I could imagine some kind of
> CSV-formatted way of putting that info in the desc, like this:
> 
>               <desc>"amenity: post_box","OTHER_ATTRIBUTE:
> ATTRIBUTE_VALUE"[...]</desc>
> 
> In case such a mechanism does not already exist, would it be a
> possible feature? This would come in handy for OSM-specific
> applications (such as OSMTracker for Android. the original OSMTracker
> for Windows mobile, etc) and would be beneficial to the users that
> upload tracks to OSM.
> 
> FYI the original bug was reported at [2].
> 
> Thanks,
>   +Emilien
> 
> [1] http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/#type_wptType
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/issues/detail?id=55
> 
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