[Potlatch-dev] GPX time elements

[Andy Allan]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> So with that in mind, when mapping a 100 mile-plus trail, you should be
> doing enough editing work that a handful of breaks here and there in the
> original trace are of no consequence at all; you should be creating and
> joining many more times than that. FWIW, I walked and mapped a five-mile
> section of a long-distance trail yesterday and the result was 12 separate
> ways (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6005321).

Indeed. It's also worth pointing out that there are multiple parts of
the Pacific Crest Trail already in OpenStreetMap. In order to improve
the map further, you need a combination of

1) Your own GPS trail
2) Other peoples already-uploaded GPS trails
3) Aerial Imagery
4) Pre-existing OSM data

... and use these sources to create multiple, properly attributed (was
it a path, or a track, or a surfaced road, or a bridge, or a ford etc)
topologically-connected ways. I don't think auto-converting one
half-faked-up giant GPS trail is going to be of that much use.

> (This is probably better suited to newbies@ than the Potlatch development
> list.)

I think by now we've established that there's no bug or development
needed for Potlatch, so yes.

Cheers,
Andy