[OSM-talk] Speeding

[Andy Robinson]

Andy Allan wrote:
>Sent: 30 November 2006 2:16 PM
>To: Robert (Jamie) Munro
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Speeding
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>On 11/30/06, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
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>	Timestamps should not be required by the system, and if the system
is
>	given them, it should not store them. It is too much of an invasion
>of
>	privacy. It may be useful to store timestamps to within a month to
>	detect if roads have been rebuilt since the trace was made, but more
>	accurate than that is certainly not necessary.


Timestamp data from the gpx is not available to users via the API unless
they download the original gpx file (assuming the user made it public).

Cheers,
Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 


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>I'd like it if the api could give some indication as to the age of the
>timestamps, so that editors could colour shade them -  white for new, grey
>for old. As the decades go by, I would expect the accuracy of fresh tracks
>to be higher than those done years ago.
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