[OSM-talk] Route/flight tag

[Nick Black]

On 11/28/06, Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:07 +0000, Dave wrote:
>
> > The problem is that there isn't any obvious way at the moment to
> > exclude sources of GPS data when you ask for points for a region.
>
> This would be quite a good thing to implement actually.  When a GPX
> trace is uploaded, there should be some way of specifying what it is
> actually a trace of (e.g. road, ferry, railway, flightpath etc.).  Also
> the editors would need to have a way of selecting which types of GPX
> data to download.  For instance, if an editing session was focussed on
> roads, then only "road" GPX data would be selected.

The only use cases for this I can think of are traces from aircraft,
which this thread seems to have decided are a lot of fun, but
altogether not very useful for OSM.  In what other circumstances would
it be useful to know where a trace had come from?

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