[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 30, Issue 25

[James Ewen]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Bill Condie<will.condie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a stack of data from the surrounds of Ayutthaya and Lopburi-
> Singburi and a bunch of other stuff from Nakhon Nayok and Prachinburi
> that I have been using this past couple of days. I've only had the GPS
> since May so that's all the tracks I have, although I get around most
> of the country during the year on the bike and should be going back to
> Cambodia in the cool season for a cross-country ride.

I would upload all the GPX tracks you have into the database. They can
sit there and not have to be acted upon. Upload them, tag them well,
and make them public.

When people are working in the area, and they hit the GPS tracks
button on Potlatch, the GPS traces will show up. They can then use
them as a basis for laying down the roads. If you have tagged the
traces so that people can find them, then they could turn the traces
into ways automatically.

The worst thing about finding GPS traces where you are mapping, is not
being able to find out which trace you are looking at. You need to
find the trace in the database and then click on the edit button. If
you can't find the trace in the database, you're out of luck.

When I upload traces, I tag it with the country, province, road
name/number, and larger centers that the traces goes through to
hopefully allow people searching to be able to find it.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VE6SRV/traces/92454

James
VE6SRV