[Talk-il] 278 unmapped gpx files of israel

[Tal]

I did not tag most of the data, mainly since i didn't know the street name /
type.
Just manually drawing a line over the gpx data, and connecting it to the
surrounding roads is a considerable amount of work.

I think that automatic conversion of gpx to osm points and lines is not that
appealing, since you get lines with way too many points, and still have to
connect the line to the surrounding streets and eliminate duplications -
some of the gpx tracks are already mapped.

I also wanted to mention, that JOSM can also convert gpx to osm data, and
also upload the new data.


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Moshe Sayag <msayag at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not uploading all the traces at first phase and only then tag them?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Tal Benavidor <tal.bav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I did some work on Jerusalem + Maale-edumim using these files.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Moshe Sayag <msayag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great news. It shouldn't be that hard to convert them to the OSM format
>>> (using GPSBabel http://www.gpsbabel.org ) and upload through JOSM.
>>>
>>> Has anyone started working on it?
>>> How do we divide the work between us? Who's processing what?
>>>
>>> Moshe
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Tal <tal.bav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Osm user Albeck has previously uploaded to OSM 278 gpx traces made
>>>> originally for freemap.co.il.
>>>> Starting now, these gpx files are marked public and can be accessed
>>>> here:
>>>>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Albeck/traces
>>>>
>>>> These gpx files contains hundreds of streets and thousands kilometers of
>>>> roads.
>>>> Albeck will not be using these gpx files to map data. So that we'll be
>>>> our job :)
>>>> After map lines are drawn, Albeck may find a way to help enter the
>>>> street names, either directly on OSM or by us asking him for specific street
>>>> names. We'll think about it later.
>>>>
>>>> Tal
>>>>
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