[OSM-newbies] Managing waypoints

[Mike Harris]

Hi
 
1. Have you set your GPS to save the data also to its SD card - this will at
least preserve the tracks in a large memory resource though as far as I
remember it won't  save waypoints?
 
2. Look at GPS Utility software at http://www.gpsu.co.uk/ - it is more
talented than GPS Babel and also free in its light edition (and of minimal
cost in the full shareware edition) with top-notch technical help and
support).
 
Mike Harris
 


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From: Donald Campbell II [mailto:donaciano2000 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 23 May 2009 14:01
To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-newbies] Managing waypoints


So yesterday I was finally able to make a trip to a village about an hour
south of me, it took a while to get a car and driver arranged.  I have a
friend there who sees the importance of getting a map done (they have NONE
in that area) and who was happy to drive us all around.

While I'm tagging and taking notes, I start getting a "Calendar memory full"
error on the Garmin eTrex HCx.  I remembered that it's been a while since
I've downloaded my waypoints, so after the trip is over I get back home and
notice my last GPSBabel import of waypoints was EXACTLY 1 month ago.
Whooops!  

The reason is it's such a pain to go through a large set of waypoints and
make sure I got them all, trying to remember what I meant at the time,
etc...

I can sit here for an hour every few days and catch up on the tracks but the
waypoints are a huge time sink for me.

So I'm asking the more experienced guys here, how do you manage them?  I'm
using JOSM for this, but I can try other software if it'll help.  Is there
some way I can put all my waypoints into a list where I can delete them one
by one as they're done? As waypoints are imported in JOSM I can't edit them,
so if I have a large group of them there I have to manually zoom in and
verify each one, but it's easy to miss some.  

Any ideas appreciated. 

Thanks,
-DC


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