[OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

[Michael Collinson]

At 11:04 AM 2/14/2008, Robert Vollmert wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Feb 13, 2008 9:41 AM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe (I possibly thought this when I started) so nobody knows
> > where I live/start, but I could easily not worry about that.
>
>
>On Feb 13, 2008, at 19:14, Karl Newman wrote:
> > Yeah, I've been collecting traces, too, but not yet uploading them
> > because I don't really want the cluster of points around my house.
> > I found a graphical editor that can edit traces (GPSTrackMaker) but
> > I haven't had time to edit them for uploading yet.
>
>I believe gpsbabel supports this kind of operation:
>
>gpsbabel -i gpx -f raw.gpx -x
>radius,exclude,distance=1.5M,lat=30.0,lon=-90.0 -o gpx -F filtered.gpx
>
>should remove all points within 1 1/2 miles of the specified lat/lon
>pair from raw.gpx, saving the output in filtered.gpx. (I haven't
>tested this.)
>
>See also http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/
>filter_radius.html .
>
>Would it make sense to add these kind of filters to the GPX upload
>facility to encourage more people to upload their traces? I'd also
>like some automatic time shift (to say the first of the month, at
>0:00)...

The radius filter sounds a good idea. It does not bother me, but it 
is a common concern that regularly comes up.

Mike
Stockholm