[OSM-talk] Delete gpx points in JOSM

[Dave]

> Personally I've found the 'trace over GPS tracks' theory of OSM to be
> one of the hardest things to get used to. Whenever I draw GPS-derived
> maps in Illustrator I work straight from the track, splitting, merging
> and colouring when appropriate. But then, Illustrator does have a
> really smashing Simplify Path function to make these things easy.


It works well, and makes some sense when yours is the only track in the
area.

These days it probably isn't though (in SW London at least), and then you
have to start figuring out if two tracks are the same street, or two
streets, which gets tricky when you have streets about 30m apart, and
irritating "oh I can't see all of the sky" GPS errors. It doesn't help
simplicity when you go mapping with somebody else and so immediately have
two tracks to reconcile for most of the area. At that point it's far easier
to just trace the dots yourself :-)
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