[talk-au] anonymising GPX files

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, John Smith 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.
>
>
>      
i finally found that dialog with a right click on the edit gpx layer
but still neither of my edited tracks have been acceptable to osm.
i think i'll delete the plugin.

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