[OSM-talk] Stupid Josm question

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Saturday 01 July 2006 22:12, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> 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?

What I do is: 
 - Take my gpx-,mps-,...-tracks
 - convert and filter them with something like
     osm-filter.pl --out-osm --use_reduce_filter gpx-*.gpx 
 - load the resulting osm File into josm
 - in josm edit it as of deleting duplicates, glitches, ... 
 - then tell josm to upload that to the Server.

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Joerg