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

[Rick Collins]

At 06:33 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>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...

Sure, I have already uploaded my current tracks, some with 1 sec per 
point others with 10 secs per point, IIRC.  They pretty much all 
start/end near...

<trkpt lat="39.408305" lon="-77.388508">
<ele>84</ele>
<time>2007-09-05T19:03:40Z</time>
<fix>3d</fix>
<hdop>1.5</hdop>
<vdop>3.1</vdop>
<pdop>3.4</pdop>
<sat>6</sat>
<speed>1.2</speed>
</trkpt>


I have trimmed a track using USAPhotoMaps just because I know how to 
do it there.  I have a new GPX file that I would like to upload.  Is 
there any way that it can be used in OSM without manually converting 
the data in JOPM?


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