[OSM-newbies] GPS trace identification

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

James Ewen wrote:
>Sent: 17 March 2008 8:48 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] GPS trace identification
>
>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?

I'm not aware of one. Suggest you add an enhancement ticket to trac.

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/

Cheers

Andy

>
>James
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