[OSM-talk] GPS scribble in JOSM

Erik Johansson erjohan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 10:30:46 BST 2006


On 9/4/06, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2006, at 19:19, Jon Burgess wrote:
>
> > I see the same thing in JOSM if I have the draw lines option enabled
> > when I have a layer with raw GPS visible. I think the raw GPS data is
> > probably just a list of all points within the bounding box in a pseudo
> > random order so drawing lines between the points makes no sense.
> >
> > There is a chance that this worked differently before the recent
> > algorithm changes to speed up the database access. I don't think the
> > API
> > makes any guarantees though that the nodes will be in any kind of
> > order,
> > if it worked better before, it was probably by luck.
>
> They're supposed to be ordered by timestamp, as Ed theorised (line 663
> of dao.rb). I've committed a change to svn that will order them by GPX
> id _then_ timestamp, which should hopefully remove the problem.

I've always seen this bug as a feature, since it's i'm not completely
clear if it's ok to publish separate tracks by people who haven't
marked them as public...

-- 
/Erik




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