[OSM-talk] relating trace points to gpx files

[Etienne]

On 7/12/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> Etienne wrote:
>
> > For privacy reasons, once tracklogs have been uploaded to the
> > server it is not possible to tell which points come from which
> > log file,
>
> This mantra is being repeated so often, that it is almost becoming
> a truth.


Lars, yes, to be precise: Once tracklogs have been uploaded to the server it
is not possible to tell which points come from which log file.

Whether this is for privacy reasons, or some other reason, is speculation.

> unless the user has explicity marked them as public, and even
> > then you can only get this information by finding their original
> > track log file, not via the applet.
>
> Is the lack of support really limited to the edit applet?  Does
> the API provide support for tracing the tracklog file for
> individual trackpoints?


The only documented API  call for trackpoints is
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/trackpoints?bbox=blon,bllat,trlon,trlat&page=0which
gets all trackpoints within a bounding box and returns just the lat
and lon for each trackpoint.  No other identifying information.

Etienne



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