[OSM-talk] running up the stats with josm and osmfilter and friends ; -)

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Monday 15 January 2007 20:04, Ben Robbins wrote:
> Joerg/
>
> >And you're getting track-logs from up to 12 other people driving arround
> >...
>
> Thats a good point, I hope people will state when that is so, and be
> highlighted in the tables.
>
> >I'm only using josm, osmfilter and my mouse and keyboard: And you can see
> >the results in the stats.
> >And no; I didn't use any other scripts than the above for adding more
> > nodes or segments.
>
> I'm awair that you have done a lot of work.  

Well; yes I did; But that was not really the point. I only wanted to point out 
that you can really speed up and improve your effeciency by using the right 
tools. So I would encourage everyone to use osmfilter or something similar. 
osmfilter is not really a sparkler in programming, but for my needs and with 
a little bit of training and testing I think tools like this can be really 
handy. I know it's a little bit of work and reading to get osmfilter up and 
running. But in the meantime you can try installing gpsdrive-svn.deb and you 
should have osmfilter installed. After this it shouldn't be too hard to get 
the rest up and running. I would love to see also others to improve the 
filter capabilities of osmfilter.

> Last month you uploaded a lot 
> of edits, but due to the way it was spread over a month and not all done in
> a day 

Well it was done in some concentrated sessions of single afternoons/evenings 
spending in front of flimmering nodes and segments. Most of the time it took 
was preprocessing all files in a batch-run with osmfilter. After this it 
takes normally not too long to correct and adapt the converted tracks. And 
then I can upload the resulting nodes and segments to the osm-server.

> I concluded it was a geniun figure that was the result of hard work. 

Yes it was hard work, but with the propper tools it was comparably easy. 

> I said "(numbers 1,2,3,4,7,9,12,13
> all seem to be examples of these)."  refering to scripts.  Your number 8
> wich I didn't include.

I saw that :-)

Well, as already said, it's nice to see I'm in the current top 10:-) But 
that's not the most motivating thing. The most motivating thing is, seeing 
that it's getting more and more people contributing to the osm-project. And 
that I already managed to get one or the other addicted to mapping after 
lending them one of my GPS for a little time ;-) Maybe i can increase my 
adiction rate a little bit in the future ;-)

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