[talk-ph] All non-private GPX traces in the Philippines

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 02:07:21 UTC 2013


Nice!  Here's a wordcloud of what is in the metadata.xml

http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/#https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F2096185%2Fmetadata.xml

Obligatory warning on using word clouds:
http://flowingdata.com/2011/10/18/word-clouds-cause-death-or-something/

;-)


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Last year, (mostly) all the GPX points that have been uploaded to OSM has
> been released as a bulk file (7GB compressed, 55GB uncompressed text):
> http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-data/
>
> Recently, the non-private GPX traces/tracks themselves and not just the
> points have been released as a bulk file too (260GB uncompressed XML):
> http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/04/12/bulk-gpx-track-data/
>
> Fortunately, somebody processed this humongous file and created extracts of
> the data for predefined regions. Here's the link to the Asia download page
> and you can download the data for the Philippines (119MB compressed)!
> http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/files/extracts/asia/index.html
>
> Hope to see some nice uses of this data. :-)
>
> Maybe somebody can create something like Steve Coast's GPS Art Poster idea:
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster
>
>
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