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

[Rick Collins]

At 11:21 AM 10/9/2007, you wrote:

>----- 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:
> >
> > 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".

Now that's what I'm talking about.  Thanks a million.  You are my hero!