[Openstreetmap] upload, applet

[Tom Carden]

On 10/4/05, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
>
> Does anybody use the applet these days?


Yes! I've been having fun filling in bits of London.

When I zoom in, all I see
> is infinitessimally small red pixels.


Link?

These are hard to see and
> impossible to connect into lines.


I agree that at times pixels are inadequate for showing GPS. I believe Steve
is drawing the GPS data into images and caching it now though, so it's not
strictly an applet issue. I imagine that, like with streets, we need to
modulate the line/point width based on the current scale. I still maintain
that this is not trivial, and would welcome serious suggestions for how big
things should be at what scale.

Do I need new glasses, or does
> somebody need a basic course in user interface design?


I've done several courses in basic user interface design! And I agree it's
not optimal. You get what you pay for, I guess.

> Or is
> everybody running the stand-alone OSM editor application?


I've never run it.

I tried to upload three new GPX files, but all I got back was
> three e-mails saying:
>
> It looks like your gpx file, gbg.gpx, uploaded to
> OpenStreetMap's database ok with 0 points.


Didn't Steve say earlier that if an upload fails then he gets notified, and
he stops accepting data in case things are getting corrupted? Perhaps he
should update that message to say something else.

And that doesn't sound so good to me. Zero points? What was the
> error? These GPX files are just as good as those I uploaded in
> July, all created by gpsbabel. I cannot really tell if the points
> are there on the map, because the small red pixels are so hard to
> see.


Small red pixels. Got it.

Tom.

PS Lars apologies for duplicate emails, I'm still working my way around
gmail...
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