[OSM-dev] Import a huge amount of GPS data

[Maarten Deen]

On 2013-05-23 14:48, Jingmin Chen wrote:

> I currently have access to 2 years, 20,000 taxi vehicles GPS trace
> (30sec interval) of a large city in China. The OSM data quality of
> that city is really bad. But uploading the raw GPS trace might have
> legal issues. Is it possible to process the data  to roads before I
> upload to OSM? Thank you very much for any suggestion.

I see two possibilities: 1) remove everything from the GPS tracks 
except the location and then upload (assuming that would remove these 
legal issues) 2) don't upload the tracks but use them to draw the roads 
yourself.

Regards,
Maarten