[Talk-ca] Logged Canadian Road Trip

[Tim Francois]

OK, that sounds like a go-ahead to me!!

I'm a bit wary of uploading tracks to OSM as at many points along the 
route we pulled into pullouts - these were all logged, so will show up 
on the trace as a slight 'dent' in the road, which someone could 
interpret as the actual highway. I have a log myself of most of the 
pullouts/POI's we entered, but this is a txt file. What I propose is 
that I upload the tracks one by one as and when I've traced them/updated 
the existing road.

Another thing - is there a convention on GPX track names? Mine are all 
date-time.gpx: nothing descriptive. Will this do when uploaded?

Thanks
Tim

On 31/08/09 01:00, Steve Singer wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Tim Francois wrote:
>
>
> Tim,
>
> My understanding is that many of the major highways in your trip were 
> mapped from aerial imagery, so a 1 point per second gps trace is 
> probably more accurate.   Uploading your gpx tracks to OSM so others 
> can see them as a datasource for tracing/ would be good.  If based on 
> your traces/having been there that you feel any roads should be 
> adjusted in OSM that you should feel free to do so as well (respecting 
> standard OSM  map editting etiquette etc...)
>
>
> There is a larger project to import roads from a government database 
> (Geobase) but right now we don't have any automated techniques for 
> improving existing roads (just adding new ones), sometimes a good GPS 
> trace is better than this data anyway.
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I live in the UK, but parents live in Calgary. This summer we went on a
>> somewhat extended roadtrip, taking in Alberta, BC, Yukon and Alaska. I
>> had my netbook and GPS mouse with me and logged pretty much the entire
>> trip, checking the OSM map accuracy using Navit (on Linux). Some major
>> roads we traveled include:
>>
>> - Trans-Canada from Calgary to Vancouver
>> - Highway 4(a) on Vancouver Island from Parksville (Nanaimo) to
>> Tofino/Ucluelet
>> - Highway 19 Parksville to Port Hardy (including little bit around
>> Telegraph Cove)
>> - Highway 16 from Prince Rupert to Highway 37 (Cassiar Highway) 
>> intersection
>> - Cassiar Highway (37) from Highway 16 up to Alaska Highway intersection
>> (including road to Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK)
>> - Almost entire Alaska Highway from Tok, AK to mile 0 in Dawson Creek
>> - All Highways on the Klondike loop, including:
>> -- Highway 2 (Klondike Highway) from Dawson City to Alaska Highway
>> -- Highway 11 (Silver Trail) from Stewart Crossing to Keno
>> -- Highway 9 (Top of the World Highway) from Dawson City to USA border
>> -- Relevant highways in Alaska, though that's not for this mailing list
>> - Dempster Highway from mile 0 into NWT
>> - Highway sections from Dawson Creek to Calgary (via Highway 22)
>>
>> So I have GPX files for almost the entire trip, with a point logged
>> every second. My questions:
>> 1) All of the highways are on OSM in one form or another, but I'm
>> assuming most were not added via GPX points. When following on Navit the
>> mapped road sometimes varied substantially from the actual road. Is this
>> a correct assumption?
>> 2) If 1) is correct, is it then OK to improve all these highways with
>> the GPX tracks?
>> 3) Is someone else already doing this, or is there a larger project
>> ongoing under which this should be maintained?
>>
>> Any info/input is gratefully received - I don't want to start updating
>> things and then realise I'm treading on someone else's toes!!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tim
>>
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