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

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Sun May 18 09:03:49 BST 2008


In message <F3DCDD0D-543D-4ECC-B03E-47F2581CFF36 at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>
          Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 18 May 2008, at 08:54, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> > In message <56D8B7E1-94D0-4D4D-9A31-C8E0F96CC1BE at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>
> >          Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On 18 May 2008, at 08:22, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >>
> >>> The timestamps should be in the original GPX file produced by
> >>> gpsbabel so that should be uploadable, and it is the original
> >>> trace we want, not something that has been heavily converted.
> >>
> >> They are in the GPX file, but how do you edit the GPX file to remove
> >> the garbage points?
> >
> > Well I don't very often need to - it's only on the rare occassions
> > that it decides to stick in a point a few hundred miles out of place
> > that I worry about it.
> >
> > In that case it is usually odd points and I fix them manually by
> > editing the GPX file in a text editor and removing them ;-)
> 
> It is a lot easier to do this task graphically.

Can JOSM really do the GPX -> OSM -> GPX round trip without losing
lots of information though? It had never really occurred to me to
try it to be honest... In fact I don't think I even knew that it
could convert from OSM to GPX.

Tom

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