[OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Lambert Carsten <lhc.osm at solcon.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to upload a couple of gpx tracks that I had cleaned up with Josm.
> They
> were refused with a message that seems to suggest thy are missing time
> stamps
> (possibly missing altitude).
>
> Why does openstreetmap want timestamps? There is no reason for this.
> I want to clean up my tracks to prevent uploading garbage from when I
> forgot
> to switch off my logger. I know in time (in theory at least) the garbage
> will
> be lost as noise behind good data. But where I collect data (mostly
> Amsterdam) there is already so much garbage and bad tracks in many area's
> rendering those tracks useless. In other area's there are no tracks at all
> and and these are exactly the area's I am trying to locate and track. Also
> I
> hope by adding more good tracks the balance will tip in favor of the good
> data.
> What is the reasoning here?
>
> There is also a privacy advantage not uploading the unnecessary time
> stamps. I
> am sure there are many that hesitate to upload tracks for privacy reasons.
> If the problem is with the missing altitude: some of my original
> trackpoints
> had an altitude of of over 6km in the Netherlands!!
>
> I can solve my problem by not uploading my tracks anymore and just use them
> personally to enter osm data. At least with my own tracks I know which bits
> are good, which are so so and which bits are bad. But I thought the whole
> point was to share all this data.
>
> Maybe someone can point me to some editor with which I can easily clean up
> the
> tracks without clearing out the time stamps (personally I don't have a
> problem uploading that info).
>
>
> Lambert Carsten
>

Check out Viking (viking.sf.net). I've used it to clean up my tracks (for
the privacy reasons you mention). It supports OSM tiles for background map
display, and allows you to upload your tracks to OSM from within the
program, too.

Karl
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