[OSM-dev] [HOT] [OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading GPX files on the OSM website

[Reinier Battenberg]

Hi,

We just launched a new site www.geobucket.org that can handle .gpx

Geobucket turns your gpx files into a WMS layer that you can use in JOSM for 
tracing.

There is one hidden feature we havent advertised yet, which is that you can 
upload .gpx files by emailing them (1 by 1) to bucket at geobucket.org
You must be registered on the site before we accept your emails.

That could make your life a bit easier.

The URL of the WMS layer is http://maps.geobucket.org/wms and the name is 
Geobucket.

Please let us know your experiences with the Geobucket, its a very young 
initiative, so lots of room for feedback based improvement.

rgds,

Reinier





On Wednesday 22 August 2012 01:44:30 Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote:
> (Copying to hot + dev because there are certainly many similar cases as I
> describe in "hot's regions" that would benefit more-than-average-places of
> more traces & dev as that's where the brains/skills to fix this problem
> are. Replies to dev only?)
> 
> I'll just +1 this post, its remarks and suggestions.
> 
> As a similarly positioned "tech savvy but not a coding-capable" person I can
> only hope that someone with dev capabilities would pick up on the task.
> 
> Another data point from behind bad connections of Haiti: I've been here now
> nearly two years and have caught myself uploading GPS traces only twice (en
> masse, a few other uploads of single tracks other than that).
> 
> This has been due to what Ben describes and looking at the bigger picture--a
> recent quick analysis I did of the GPS traces downloaded for all the
> territory of Haiti--I am tempted to guess that this "difficulty" of
> uploading GPS traces leaves many traces unuploaded, which is a clear loss
> to the project.
> 
> Why do I think so:
> a simple comparison of my Haiti GPS trace folder size with the size of all
> GPS traces for Haiti shows that I've uploaded almost half of the tad over
> 400mb of traces. Additionally the number of traces uploaded by someone else
> than me vs total (tagged with Haiti or haiti) is/was perhaps 40-50 (for the
> total history), iirc. .. And there have been hundreds of OSM contributors
> going around with GPSs here.
> 
> Now, it's most certain that the technical inconvenience of uploading is only
> a part of the problem. .. But it _is_ part of the problem...
> 
> I know that it's not a secret that the GPS trace functions of OSM both up- &
> downloading are not as developed as data editing, map renderings available,
> etc and since can't really fix this problem I can only hope that someone
> else will (one day).
> 
> Cheers from Haiti,
> -Jaakko
> 
> Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel
> --
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Robbins <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:22:31
> To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading GPX files on the OSM website
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Reinier Battenberg
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