[OSM-talk] Big GPX upload

[Andy Robinson]

Cool stuff Richard. Any particular part of the midlands outside of the
Burton area that's well covered with this "new" stuff?

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
>Sent: 05 July 2006 09:08
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Big GPX upload
>
>Hello all,
>
>I've finally uploaded all my legacy geowiki.com GPS tracks (2002-2004).
>
>Most of these were downloaded from my eTrex using a program which shall
>remain nameless but which had a rather dodgy lat/long->OSGB conversion
>routine. Getting them back into the original lat/long has required a
>bit of processing... superimposing them on a bunch of pure GPX tracks
>suggests they're ok now.
>
>All are for the UK, except for the Eurostar line to Brussels. They
>should be especially useful for those mapping A and B roads around the
>"greater Midlands", because that's where I tend to do most of my
>driving. Total distance is just under 8000 miles. All tracks are
>public.
>
>Because they were recorded with an original yellow eTrex, which logs
>more points on corners than on straight sections, they're more suited
>for use in an app like JOSM (which can join the dots between points)
>than in the applet. Consequently, should anyone want to download them,
>here's a zip of all of them plus tracks I've collected since:
>
>http://www.systemeD.net/gpx/richard_gpx_july2006.zip
>(3.4Mb file)
>
>Also uploaded to the wiki are some very old waypoints I collected back
>in 1999 or so:
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Railway_stations
>
>Have fun :)
>
>cheers
>Richard
>
>
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