[OSM-newbies] GPX Import failure help

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/21 Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a simple universal csv: bustia.csv  (see
>> [http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_unicsv.html]) (it really
>> has only one point) and I want to export to gpx. I use gpsbabel:
>>
>> $ gpsbabel -i unicsv -f bustia.csv -o gpx -F bustia.gpx
>>
>> but when I upload to OSM I receive the error "Found no good GPX points in
>> the input data" in the GPX import failure message.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> I attach the files.
>
> Hi Xan,
>
> The converted gpx file contains only a waypoint <wpt> element, and not
> a track <trk> element.  It may be that the input filter at osm is only
> allowing <trk> elements.  I'll look further to see what I can find.

gpsbabel will convert waypoints to tracks with a command similar to

gpsbabel -i gpx -f /tmp/bustia.gpx -x transform,trk=wpt -o gpx -F
bustia-transform.gpx

But this does not maintain the timestamp, and thus is rejected by the
osm server.

In addition to finding a technical solution, we need to ask ourselves
"do waypoints, which are not tracks, belong in our collection of
tracks? Is there risk of confusing other mappers if non-trackfile
elements are in the gps track collection?"