[OSM-talk] Wishes for GPS track upload

[Ed Avis]

When you make a single GPS log that covers several different 'sessions', turning
the GPS receiver off between each, then the track will have jumps in it.  The
OSM site displays a little picture of each log, but when the log has a jumps the
picture becomes just a straight line.  It would be cool if, on seeing that the
GPS log has a gap of several kilometres between one point and the next, the
uploader would split it into separate tracks.

Additionally, when you upload a track you should be able to specify how it was
made, with checkboxes for 'foot', 'bike', 'car', 'boat', 'plane'.  (If it has a
mixture, tick several boxes.)  That would avoid confusion from aeroplane logs
that don't correspond to land features, and when enough data was collected, it
would be possible to spot roads misclassified as footways, incorrect one-ways,
and so on.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>