[OSM-talk] Waypoints in the GPX files

[Nick Whitelegg]

osmeditor2 can already handle upload of waypoints. They become nodes in 
OSM. For instance, if you look at the IoW under osmeditor2, you'll see a 
load of black dots with strange names like "V36NV38S" which were waypoints 
I used to record the footpath numbers, useful possibly for navigation.

Furthermore osmeditor2 will allow you to set the type of a waypoint, which 
will be used to tag the resulting node in OSM. Some of the Garmin built-in 
types are supported but osmeditor2 will allow you to define other types 
e.g. tea shop or communications mast. Again these will be uploaded to OSM 
as tagged nodes (e.g. type=teashop or type=mast). In the next osmeditor2 
release I am looking to convert the tagging to the new conventions (e.g. 
name=Brighstone place=village rather than name=Brighstone type=village)

Nick