[OSM-newbies] Editing a gps trace

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Rajkumar S <rajkumars at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to turn gps trace to ways automatically so that I can
>> just concentrate on adding information than click on the map adding
>> nodes just to create ways??
>
> JOSM has lots of support for this kind of thing. In Potlatch, if you click
> on the "edit" link in that URL you pasted, you can select "convert GPS track
> to ways". (I haven't actually tried this though.)

...but if you then click "save" it says "nothing to save" - you STILL
have to click aaall the way through the track, re-tracing your GPS
trace, which does indeed look slightly redundant.

Is there a way around this, I wonder? It would make sense to be able
to show the start and end points and then tell it to use all GPS
points in between to make a way.

I subscribed to the list to ask this particular question, as I've
spent considerable time re-tracing GPS tracks after I've asked the
software to "convert to ways".

Thanks!

Alex

PS: This is an excellent project that I only feel privileged to
contribute to. I am traveling in Asia for a few months and use OSM
exports for my GPS, which give me an absolutely a-ma-zing degree of
detail for most places.