[OSM-talk] Easy to use system for countryside surveying

[John McKerrell]

On 16 Aug 2008, at 16:52, bvh wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 04:57:17PM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>>
>> A track simplification algorithm could be applied and ways  
>> generated from
>> the GPS trace automiatically. This could then be uploaded to OSM  
>> for a
>> more expert user (who could subscribe to an RSS feed to inform them  
>> of
>> such uploads in their area) to refine the way, i.e. remove extraneous
>> points and connect the auto-generated way to existing ways.
>
> Why do track simplification and way generation before uploading? Why  
> not
> work with tags on the nodes of the gpx file and upload that? This  
> would
> preserve more of the original data and would give the more expert  
> user a
> change to judge on the accuracy of the way nodes/way guessing.

Because it's a pain to convert an overly detailed way into a less  
detailed way but it's not too hard to add nodes to a simplified way?  
So long as the original GPS data is also submitted as a GPX file you  
could still check that it hasn't over-simplified.

John