[OSM-talk] GPX timestamps - please don't make stuff up

[Dan Karran]

+1 for your ticket

I think it's much better to accept data without timestamps if
necessary (though obviously having timestamps would be better) than to
have people think - and I'm guilty of this too - that they have to
make up their own to have OSM accept the data.

For future analysis of data, the odd tracklog lacking timestamp data
will have hardly any effect on the overall outcome of that analysis.
Fake data on the other hand would mess it up completely unless it was
easily filtered (=~1970 or so).

Regards,
Dan

On 5/15/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
> <rant>
>
> I have submitted a feature request on the behalf of all the misguided
> contributors who are making up fake timestamps for their data:
>
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/220
>
> Submitting feature requests (or patches!) is the suggested course of
> action if OSM doesn't support what you're trying to do - please don't
> make stuff up!
>
> We might not use the timestamp data now, but we can and will do all
> sorts of useful things with it in the future.  Whilst we can't stop
> you, and it's great that you want to contribute, please stop and think
> about just how vital it is that you submit that file *today*, and
> consider holding off until we make this change.
>
> If you must, then please make your fake timestamps easy to filter -
> unix epoch or something.
>
> Please - no lectures about how "we can't stop it".  I'm well aware
> that this will be hard to enforce, but I'm appealing to the better
> judgement of people who are on this list now to at least not make
> things any worse.
>
> </rant>
>
> Best,
>
> Tom.
>
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