[OSM-talk] Timestamps in GPX files (was Re: Speeding)

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:27:29PM +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> 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.

Well, the problem is that some of the gpx traces that you get from
openstreetmap have the points in jumbled orders. That's why you cant
in general trace the nice path between consecutive points, something
which can help find out if a particular street is oneway and in
general to get a better visualisation that just a bunch of points do.

Timestamps could help clients to reorder track points correctly.

In fact, for my own traces I always load them in merkaartor
directly instead of going through osm, exactly to preserve all
this information.

cu bart