[OSM-talk] Waypoints in the GPX files

[Andy Robinson]

Thanks for that Nick. Any feedback on when you might have a compiled version
of osmeditor2 available for Windows?

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 Nick Whitelegg
>Sent: 15 May 2006 17:06
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Waypoints in the GPX files
>
>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
>
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