[OSM-newbies] How to contribute my gps track logs

Mark Williams mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Apr 11 19:15:09 BST 2007


On Wednesday 11 Apr 2007 11:48, Robert Hart wrote:
> > I hadn't realised you could do that... does it only work for
> > individual files, or can you gzip a collection of them together for
> > upload? The wiki page (Upload) implies just a single file I guess.
>
> gzip only works on individual files anyway. (gzip is often used with tar
> though, as .tar.gz)
> As far as I know there is no support for this as yet, and even it it were
> added, I suspect that we'd want to limit the size of individual uploads.
>

gpsbabel has the ability to merge tracks:
gpsbabel -i gpx -f track1.gpx -track,merge -f track2.gpx -o gpx -F 
newtrack.gpx

This may enable you to collect a locality, perhaps?

Mark





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