[OSM-talk] relating trace points to gpx files

[Simon Hewison]

Andy Robinson wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> There is currently no way to do that as a user. Right now we just ignore bad
> data which we all generate of come across from time to time. Lots of good
> data in the same area is usually sufficient to show that parts of some
> tracks are poor.

What would be really useful in the API would be a trackpoints call, but 
instead of just returning a bunch of points, would return a concatenation of 
all the public gpx files that have traces that enter that bounding box.
It wouldn't matter _who_ those traces came from, just that they are traces.

This would be *really good* for JOSM, because then it could use that call, 
and it would actually be able to draw lines between the dots, which makes 
the Garmin derived traces a lot easier to understand (since they seem to 
drop a trackpoint only on corners).

-- 
Simon Hewison