[Talk-ca] Logged Canadian Road Trip

[Tim Francois]

(I'll try answering all emails in this one...)

Most weren't dual-carriageways with the major exception being the 
Trans-Canada section. Hopefully this'll make things easier when tracing 
onto OSM!!

Consensus seems to be that I DO upload all my tracks but tag/describe 
them once uploaded with to/from and mode of transport (vehicle for most 
of it!) - sounds good to me.

Sometimes the turn-offs were for views, other times to campsites, other 
times for fuel etc etc. I'll  make sure I add to OSM what I have logged...

Driving into buildings - yeah, that was on-screen, not in real life!! 
Another vote for the 'car:not usually' tag here though!

Right, best get to work then. Unfortunately I'm on holiday for two weeks 
starting tomorrow, but after that it's showtime!!

Cheers for all the replies so far!
Tim

On 02/09/09 16:49, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Tim Francois<sk1ppy14 at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> 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?
>>      
> Sure.  You can leave the filenames or change them.
>
> You can add tags and a description to the files as well when you
> upload them.  Recent discussion on talk suggests that you tag
> from / to
> car / bike / walk
> main route
>
> and adding that you used turnouts might be good in the description.
>
> Were the highways dual carriageways?
>
>