[Openstreetmap] upload, applet

[Alex Willmer]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 23:16 +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Does anybody use the applet these days?  When I zoom in, all I see 
> is infinitessimally small red pixels.  

That's normal, as I understand the applet. The red dots are trackpoints,
plotted from the gpx file you uploaded, 1 dot per logged point. If your
GPS unit has a high logging rate, the red dots will often merge into
solid trail.

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

The intention is that you use the red dots as a visual guide, placing
nodes over them, wherever needed. Nodes are drawn as a black spot,
segments (lines) are drawn between them. For an example of 

> Do I need new glasses, or does 
> somebody need a basic course in user interface design?  Or is 
> everybody running the stand-alone OSM editor application?

The red dots could be clearer in places, nodes and segments can be drawn
larger or smaller by using the + (plus) or - (minus) key. Note that the
applet (for me atleast) is sluggish, you must hover over a node for a
moment before dragging the segment, or releasing the mouse button to
complete a join.

To my understanding osmeditor is not yet capable of editting osm data
'live', for now I'm using the applet.
 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

With that, I'm afraid I can't help.

Regards

Alex