[OSM-talk] Delete gpx points in JOSM

[Nick Whitelegg]

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>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.

I think that's the thing - it would take complex maths to do anything 
useful with the trace.
Way back in the early days, osmeditor used to do a 1:1 conversion from gpx 
points to nodes. That was then followed by a painful manual process of 
deleting excess nodes. As soon as I tried out the 'draw over GPX' method 
instead, it was much, much easier :-)

Nick



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