[OSM-talk] uploading gpx files. how to?

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Monday 11 Sep 2006 00:31, Dean Earley wrote:
> >>First I just tried it in JOSM itself, thinking it was sort of
> >>self explaining, at least it offers me the possibility to upload
> >>data.
> >
> > JOSM is the source of so much garbage.  I bet Orkney was drawn
> > with JOSM.  Did you see this mess?  I'm glad I don't live there.
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=58.98&lon=-2.96&zoom=12
>
> I had the same issue with the A27 between Worthing and Brighton.
> There were 3 sets of segments, what appeared to be one for each
> carriageway, and one roughly down the middle with a way on it.
> I can only assume this was blindly converted from a GPX trace.

What that could be is someone originally represented it as a single way, then 
someone else did both carriageways without deleting the original way.

Nick