[OSM-newbies] display gpx timestamps in JOSM

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Cornelius Sicker
>Sent: 03 March 2009 3:59 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] display gpx timestamps in JOSM
>
>Okay, guess I have to do it this way (with the waypoints). I just didn't
>want to handle the GPS device at all, since it's neatly mounted on my
>handlebar and I see no difference in writing a time or a waypoint number
>and the time should be a valid data field for each recorded track so I
>thougt it would be easy to use... But alright, today I tried it with taking
>photos since I read that, too. Tomorrow I have to see how to import the
>stuff in JOSM (I guess a special plugin is needed.) Thanks for your quick
>responses!

I've been mapping by taking photos since I started in 2005 so I can
thoroughly recommend it. There is a built in photo viewer for JOSM however I
personally think the optional AgPifoJ plug-in is superior, especially as it
doesn't eat memory. Once the plug-in is loaded simply select the "open
images with..." from the File menu.

You synchronise the time on the photos with the GPX. The easiest way to do
that is take a photograph of your GPS displaying the precise time.
Alternatively its pretty easy to set the Camera to GMT and as long as the
camera time is within a minute of the GPS time then you only need to adjust
the synchronisation of the photoset by +/- 60 seconds. Easy enough to then
sync manually once you have tried it a few times. The benefit of this latter
approach is that you don't need a photo of the GPS displaying the time.

Best of luck

Cheers

Andy

>
>Cheers,
>Cornelius
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
><ajrlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>	Simplest method is to create a waypoint for each note that you write
>down.
>	The waypoint reference number can then be written down alongside the
>note.
>	Once back behind the computer you can load both the tracklog and the
>	waypoint file into JOSM.
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