[Talk-GB] Mapping from a survey

[Timothy Noname]

I also use OSMTracker for Android. If your GPS signal is good it provides a
great way to upload GPS tracks which you can then edit using the web
editor, iD
To make the GPS on my phone more accurate I always use this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2
It's important to stand still until the GPS signal shows the best accuracy.
Mine never shows better than 3.2m

If you have a smart watch you may also be able to track your GPS and upload
it, but it will likely be harder to do and less accurate.

You could also use Mapillary to create a photo record when walking but you
do look a bit crazy walking around holding your phone up.





On Fri, 13 May 2022, 11:15 David Woolley, <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 13/05/2022 10:51, Mark Goodge wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a good way to go about that? I've never mapped from a
> > survey before, and I don't really know what the process is. Are there
> > apps for a phone which I can use to trace lines that I can then transfer
> > to OSM later?
>
> Mapping from a survey is actually the gold standard way of mapping, and
> the ability of the general public to do it was what made OSM possible!
>
> Any good dedicated satellite navigator should be able to log tracks.
>
> Considering Android, I use OSMTracker, for raw track collection, Keypad
> Mapper for house numbers (although I've not used it in a while, and it
> comes up with a warning about being built for an old Android), and
> Vespucci as a full function editor.  The first can directly upload
> tracks, although I generally save to a local file. I've never looked
> into track support on Vespucci.
>
> I use JOSM as the main editor, and it can read tracks from local files
> or from the server and use them as a background for mapping.  You should
> not upload the raw track to form the feature, but rather simplify it and
> smooth it based on what your eyes told you.
>
> You can of course use other methods, like pacing or laser range finding
> distances, triangulation, measuring photographs, etc.
>
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