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

Rory McCann rory at technomancy.org
Sun May 18 12:18:30 BST 2008


Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Can JOSM really do the GPX -> OSM -> GPX round trip without losing
>> lots of information though?
> 
> Depends on what's there in the first place ;-) if you have a GPS that
> stores only lat/lon/time in the GPX then there's nothing much to lose.
> Extra bits that might be in the GPX, like hdop/vdop, speed etc.
> probably won't make it through.

In my experience, the time data is lost by JOSM when coverting OSM -> 
GPX. The resultant file is unuploadable.

Rory




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