[Openstreetmap] Formats for uploading

Jo Walsh jo at frot.org
Fri Mar 25 10:02:01 GMT 2005


hello lester,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:56:22PM +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> Now I want to start building up useful tracks that I can export, since I 
> have a few long runs in the offing over Easter week, I'd like to know 
> that what I build up will be usable. Please can someone give me a few 
> pointers to making this work ;)

tracks and points in GPX format work best for most people here.
(i think openstreetmap has a form upload; i'm working on user login
etc for ours, soon; nick's scheme involves creating line segments from
GPX waypoints instead of trackpoints.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/MakingGpxTracks
a guide to using the gpsbabel tool to export GPX on mac, win or *nix


zx




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