[OSM-talk] Automatic creation of ways

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007 18:13 schrieben Sie:
> Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> >Sent: 08 May 2007 4:40 PM
> >To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic creation of ways
> >
> >Dean,
> >
> >I did not know about that feature, but it is definitely useful in "white"
> >(i.e. unmapped) areas. Do you have a pointer where this is documented?
>
> If the distance between GPS points is large, eg 100m or more, then this
> method is a timesaver in unmapped areas but please don’t use it for areas
> with existing mapping or when the frequency of gps points is small and
> hence would otherwise create a huge number of unnecessary segments.
>
> If you do use it, I'd recommend editing the resultant data to clean it up
> etc before uploading anything to OSM.
>

My GPS receiver (WBT-201) has a logging function by angle, i.e. on a straight 
path, there is no logging at all, in curves there is dense logging. Works 
well in a car for roads. For me that makes a lot of sense for OSM waypoints. 

Quite useful would be to convert GPS points in a region to waypoints (often 
there are measurement errors at the beginning of a path).

Thanks,
Rainer

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