[OSM-talk] Stupid Josm question

[Barnett, Phillip]

I'm obviously missing something obvious here, but given that my GPS tracks, loaded into josm and with the 'Draw lines between raw GPS points' option, produces beautiful looking roads  - why am I then painstakingly adding nodes and segments in an attempt to make an approximation of those automatically generated by josm? Yes, there will be patches that require cleaning up, but in the main, a lot of the groundwork could already be done if I could just get josm to upload the raw gps tracks as finished roads. The conversion into ways would still need doing manually, but the tracing of tracks is hugely labour intensive, particularly if you're trying for accuracy 
(btw, is approx 50 nodes for a 2 km stretch of minor country lane a bit excessive, or what you need for accurate map making, as I think it is  ....?)

So, what am I doing wrong wih josm? Why am I duplicating what the program does automatically?

Phillip
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