[talk-au] anonymising GPX files

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 21/6/09, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/EditGpx
> > >
> > > I've just downloaded this but haven't tried it
> yet
> >
> > tried on a small gpx file- today's - and happy with
> this
> but its not acceptable to the osm server with the
> timestamps gone

It does work, but I couldn't work out how to use it to switch to another GPX file without quitting and re-opening JOSM. Also it has no batch function.

To do what you want to do, you need to do this:

Open GPX file, click the "edit GPX" button that appears on the left side tool bar, click ok, remove or delete the old gpx file from the layers box, then select "convert to gpx layer with anonymised time", then go tools and upload traces.

The time stamps should get converted to random or unix epoch start time, but they do exist and have worked fine for uploading.