[OSM-newbies] Converting GPX to ways

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Mon Apr 26 11:42:42 BST 2010


Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
> For areas where there aren't that many roads and you are at 
> first travelling great distances it's quite handy to have a gpx 
> to osm convert function, because tracing some hundred miles 
> from gpx track *is* tedious.

Exactly. Urban mappers might not need to use it but it's a huge time-saver
for us rural types.

> So in my experience the only way to sensibly use the gpx->OSM 
> way feature is to
> a) preprocess the GPX (remove stops, remove obvious junk, 
> basically keeping only the stretch of road you're really interested in)
> b) convert to OSM Way
> c) *simplify* the way in JOSM before uploading.

Note that Potlatch's GPX-to-ways feature automatically does c) (you don't
get any choice) and 'locks' the way to encourage you to do a) before
unlocking.

cheers
Richard
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