[OSM-newbies] GPS trace identification

James Ewen jewen at shaw.ca
Mon Mar 17 20:47:36 GMT 2008


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Blake Crosby <me at blakecrosby.com> wrote:

> There is a talk-ca mailing list that was recently created. I see that
> you are looking for traces in Ontario so I figured you would be
> interested in the talk-ca mailing list as well.

I'm subscribed there as well...

> Now to answer your question:
>
> You are only searching based on tags. The url you provided wont find my
> traces, even though they appear in Ontario, because I didn't tag them
> with the keyword "ontario".

That's just bad tagging then! 8)

> As far as I know there is no way to search for traces based on lat/long.
> Only tags.

Okay, so back to my original question, is there a way to search based
on tags besides pasting a tag into a URL that I happened across?

James




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