[OSM-newbies] GPS to display OSM maps

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 13:14:56 GMT 2009


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> >> - It would be nice to be able to store multiple track logs, giving
> >> each one a name (I don't know if *any* GPS can do this, but I figured
> >> it's worth an ask)
> >
> > Not sure chat you mean.
>
> An example - if I walk down a footpath, it would be nice to save a
> track log of that walk and name it something like "Footpath", then
> walk along a canal, save that as a new track log named "Canal". The
> idea being that when I then loaded them into JOSM it would make it
> easier to mark up the new features. That doesn't appear to be
> possible, though.
>

I think you'd quickly get fed up with doing that.

A better solution, would be to use the waypoints, to mark both the begining
and end of a section that your walking along.

This should work out as a much quicker solution.
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