[OSM-newbies] Starting with JOSM and OpenStreetMap in general

[graham]

Rick Collins wrote:

> Graham, I don't really agree that any of these reasons justify 
> *requiring* all points to be manually entered.  Yes, I found a few 
> points that needed to be cleaned up and I did that in another program 
> that superimposes my tracks on USGS photos and maps.  But a track may 
> have thousands of points.  I have no interest in manually translating 
> this into OSM data.
> 

OK, I'm not one of the people working on the software so I can't comment 
on whether it's likely for anyone to produce a program to do that for 
you. For most of the world there isn't enough data to do averaging, though.

The only other suggestion I have is that just uploading the raw gps data 
to osm (via the web, not josm) is potentially useful as other people (or 
maybe software in the future) might be able to use it. If you've done 
that already, I'd be curious to see what it looks like if you can give a 
lat/long somewhere in the area...

Graham