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

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Thu May 23 17:21:00 UTC 2013


On 23/05/13 13:48, 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.

Surely the first question that needs to be asked is, what exactly is the 
legal issue with the raw traces? and what reason do we have to think 
that road data derived from them will be immune from that issue?

Tom

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