[OSM-newbies] uploaded data not visible

[SteveC]

Bouncing to newbies where people should be able to help..

On 21 Jul 2009, at 10:26, chris legg wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I am very sorry to bother you, but none of the other contacts seemed  
> appropriate.
>
> I am new to OSM, but have been in the GIS/GPS business for more than  
> 20 years, and have mapped tracks in many countries. I decided to try  
> to upload a couple of maps for areas where OSM has no current maps,  
> Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. I did  
> not have the original GPX files for either of these. For Eastern  
> Congo, I had downloaded data from five different GPS units that all  
> went out on field work on the same day. This was in the form of  
> delimited text files. I use DNR Garmin to download data, and also to  
> convert GPS data between different file formats. I used Excel to  
> combine the five text files, then created a Shapefile from it, and  
> converted the shapefile to GPX using DNR Garmin. Every record (about  
> 12,000 of them) had time stamps. For Equatorial Guinea (Bioko  
> island) the data was originally recorded on a PDA using a bluetoth  
> GPS, and was not in GPX format. I created time-stamps in standard  
> GPX format using the hour-minute-second data from the PDA, and again  
> went to GPX via shapefile.
>
> The data all uploaded successfully to OSM a couple of days ago, and  
> I got the appropriate messages. I looked for the data a couple of  
> times, but assumed that it was taking a while to be displayed.  
> Finally, I used the My Traces option, and selected map. Both data  
> sets appear to be out in the Atlantic somewhere, but very small and  
> invisible. I have re-checked the data. What appears to have happened  
> is that DNR Garmin has added new fields for projected lat and long,  
> placed the real lat long values on these fields, and placed some  
> kind of re-projected values in the old lat long fields. I assume  
> that OSM works automatically, and assumes that the lat long values  
> are correct if all the other criteria are met.
>
> I would like to delete this data, and will try to re-format so that  
> lat long values are in the correct named fields.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Legg

Yours &c.

Steve