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

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Collins" <gnuarm.2006 at arius.com>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Starting with JOSM and OpenStreetMap in general


> 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?
>
>

It depends on how dense your trackpoints in the GPX file are, looking at the 
already loaded tracks in the area above, then you would not want to convert 
these automatically to a way.

Assuming you have a simplified GPX file then:

1) load it into JOSM

2) Right click the GPX layer in the layers panel (top right of screen), and 
choose  "Convert to data layer".


David


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