[Openstreetmap] How do we handle large amount of GPS points?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Matt Amos]
> iirc, gpx provides a "bounds" value in the header for precisely this 
> purpose.

Yes.  But my files do not include it.  This is why I would like some
filter capable of adding the bounding box info to an existing GPX
file.

> i don't think a naming standard is necessary, since we can rename
> the files at upload-time to whatever we like.

A fairly standardized naming system will make it easier to keep file
repositories in sync.

> but we should definately require the author, copyright and
> description headers to be present, as this helps us later if someone
> claims we stole our data from anywhere (a la SCO).

Yes.  Any suggestions to what they should contain?