[OSM-newbies] many km of kong Kong traced- but a problem

[SteveC]

David

If you get on the mailing list someone will be able to help you. I  
suggest you go to NMEA and use gpsbabel to get from there to GPX>

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On 27 Feb 2008, at 17:53, David Turkington wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> I have visited your Open Street Map site and think it is great.
>
> I want to help – I have many of km of Hong Kong traced – however I  
> don’t have the original GPS source – I do have it sucked into  
> Mapinfo and can output it as CSV File:
>
> "distance 
> ","height 
> ","longitude 
> ","quality","time","velocity","latitude","number_of_satellites"
> 0,83,114.219,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:25.000",0,22.2872,5
> 0,96,114.219,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:26.000",0,22.2872,5
> 0,107,114.219,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:28.000",0,22.2872,5
> 0,117,114.219,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:30.000",0,22.2872,5
> 0,118,114.219,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:32.000",0,22.2872,6
> 36,112,114.22,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:34.000",0,22.2869,6
> 36,111,114.22,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:36.000",0,22.2869,6
> 38,105,114.22,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:38.000",7,22.2869,6
> 42,105,114.22,2,"4.6.2007 17:06:40.000",9,22.2869,6
>
> Is there anyway this can be uploaded? or can you tell me the format  
> it needs to be in and I can probably convert it back to NEMA or  
> something.
>
> I worked for a company (Nokia) doing measurements for a mobile phone  
> company, these are collected during drive testing. Actually,  
> thinking about it, if this is useful I can probably get various  
> friends around the world and get huge amounts of drive routes from  
> all over the place if it would be useful. There’s nothing quite like  
> a mobile phone company to put down the logged GPS miles. The problem  
> is the GPS is usually combined with radio measurements and comes out  
> in some proprietary format.
>
> Here’s a look at what it looks like in Mapinfo:
>
> <image001.jpg>
>
> Cheers and best regards,
> David Turkington

have fun,

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