[OSM-talk] city accuracy

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Montag 17 September 2007, Steve Coast wrote:
> On 16 Sep 2007, at 23:57, Tom Higgy wrote:
> > I was thinking on the bus today that it'd be useful if JOSM had some
> > options for dealing with DOP in GPS traces. Maybe showing points in a
> > different colour depending on their DOP, so the more accurate points,
> > which can be more accurately relied upon, are most obvious, fading as
> > the DOP increases.
>
> The original OSM applet had 10m circles around each point. Varying
> radius circles make more sense than colour?

I think this would be a great thing to store in the central database (if 
available) too. This would help working with the data. osmtrackfilter also 
uses this information to decide if the track is on an existing osm-segment or 
if it is too far away and a new segment has to be created.

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Joerg