[OSM-dev] GPX Planet extracts

[Ilya Zverev]

Hi! GPX Planet extracts are nearly ready: 
http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/files/extracts/index.html

Extracts for Germany regions are still being processed, I hope to 
upload them by tomorrow morning (Thursday in the worst case). All other 
files are complete. You can use those extracts of manageable size or cut 
them even more (e.g. just your city) with filter-gpx.pl from 
https://github.com/Zverik/gpxplanet-tools

If you are going to calculate statistics on those files, be warned that 
when a user had uploaded their traces in an gz/bz2 archive, it was made 
into a single trace in the database, and therefore in this dump. So a 
single gpx in a GPX planet doesn't mean a single source gpx.

There are a lot of uses for this trace array, including generation of a 
tile layer for use in editors and preparing printable city maps of those 
traces, like Steve did for his kickstarter (though not with OSM data). 
Or maybe one can visualize a fleet of mappers collecting traces through 
the last 7 years. Not to mention academic possibilites. There is 
probably no larger open dataset of collected GPS points, and it would be 
quite unfortunate to leave it unprocessed.

Thanks,
IZ