[OSM-newbies] Upload-Data

[xeen]

Use GPS Babel ( http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html ) to convert
your GPS Logs to the "GPX" format (it's listed as "GPX XML" GPS
Babel). You can then upload the new files to the OpenStreetMap (
http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/mine ) and it shouldn't give you
the wrong format error.
Please don't skip this step, or upload your traces with the JOSM
"DirectUpload" plugin (add it in the options first) as there are
several advantages:
1) If someone files a lawsuit against OSM it's easy to prove your
additions weren't drawn off a copyright map
2) The more people upload tracks, the more precise the map becomes. A
street with several traces is likely to be located in the middle of
those, thus ironing out the GPS imprecision.
3) If you for some reason forget to add a street, anyone who downloads
GPS data can add it later :)

Hope that helps.
Greetings
xeen

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:21, Marian Borgwardt <marian.borgwardt at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i am an absolutely newbie. My first question is how to upload data to OSM.
>
> I collected date and imported them to JOSM, then I downloaded the existing
> date from OSM-Server and drawed the nodes. Now I tried to upload the data to
> OSM server, but nothing happened since nearly 2 hours.
>
> I also can't upload my gps trace to OSM with the web-interface, it returns
> an error. My trace isn't in correct format.
>
> How long I have to wait until the data is integrated in OSM database when I
> use JOSM or how can I put the traces in correct format to upload on OSM?
>
>
>
> Sincerely yours
>
>
>
> Marian Borgwardt
>
>
>
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