[OSM-talk] HOWTO: edit GPX tracks using JOSM

[Shaun McDonald]

On 18 May 2008, at 00:50, Rory McCann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just got my NaviGPS BGT-31 and I made my first trace today. I got
> the data off it with gpsbabel 1.3.5 and got it into GPX format.  
> However
> I wanted to clean it up a bit first. I couldn't find any way to edit  
> it.
>  I was able to convert it to OSM format using gpsbabel with this
> command: "gpsbabel -i gpx -f trace.gpx -o osm -F trace.osm", I could
> then open it in JOSM and remove some bad points. However coverting  
> that
> OSM file back into GPX for upload was troublesome.
>

JOSM can do these conversions natively.


> I first tried to save it as GPX format in JOSM, but that didn't save  
> the
> timestamp data, which broke the import. Then I tried converting the  
> OSM
> file to GPX using gpsbabel, but that laid out the file differently  
> from
> before, so the importer couldn't see the points in it.

I think the fact that you converted it using gpsbabel, meant that the  
timestamp info was lost at that point, hence why you need to convert  
it in JOSM. To do this you context click on the GPX layer in JOSM and  
choose "convert to data layer".

Shaun
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