[Talk-GB] Old and current GPS tracks

[Colin Smale]

I have also wondered about this. The date the track was recorded may
anonymised/obfuscated for privacy reasons. We always have the date of
upload, which is better than nothing I suppose.

On 2019-12-22 12:03, BD wrote:

> Hi, 
> couple of days ago I had a chance to drive on the new section of A14 (between Brampton and Swavesey junction). I recorder my journey GPS track and now would want to upload it the map. However, I've noticed there are plenty of old traces present and here is my question: 
> 
> Over the last few years since I joined this list there were several discussions about mapping "current" state of affairs. Latest being the disused apartment block. How do we go about GPS traces? 
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.3103/-0.2416&layers=G 
> 
> The above is no longer fully accurate as the traffic has moved to the new A14. If I add my latest trace this will only add to the confusion as there is no way to separate the GPS info by date (or is there?). Do "we"/OSM manage the GPS data so it can be updated when roads change? 
> 
> Also, looking at the GPS data I found this: 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/52.3929/-0.6807&layers=G 
> surely, this must be a broken trace which brings no value to the project, is there a way to mark/report such errors? 
> 
> Many thanks, 
> dzidek23 
> 
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