[OSM-talk] Removing home point cloud(s) from multiple GPX files

[Polderrunner]

David Ebling wrote:
> During the downtime I figured I should really catch up with cleaning
> up my huge backlog of GPX files and prepare them for upload. I have
> many many hours of tracks on my HDD that I have not uploaded because
> many of them are polluted with point clouds around my house and my
> relatives' houses. I am not happy to upload these for privacy reasons
> and also for data purity reasons.
> 
> I am not very command line compatible, and can't find *any* gui tool
> for Mac or Windows that will let me do this. GPX Babel only seems to
> let you remove points outside a radius not inside the radius, unless
> you use the exclude option which appears to be command line only. It
> also takes lat and long in an annoying format (decimal minutes,
> neither decimal degrees nor degrees, minutes and seconds.) It also
> seems only to be able to process one file at a time on the Mac
> version I've played with.
> 
> Is there any program out there that will do this easily? If not OSM
> would really benefit from one, as I think there are many people like
> me who aren't uploading GPX because cleaning them up is simply too
> much effort. Here's my idea for someone with more programming skills
> than me:
> 
> -A dialogue box that uses an OSM slippy map to draw circles of
> exclusion on the map, with a guidance note suggesting that they are
> near and covering but not exactly centred on your home/work/other
> point cloud locations. -Ability to batch process that's user friendly
>  -Output to a new folder -Ideally, upload direct to OSM, to be
> considerate to other users, perhaps over a specified time interval.
> 

Try this program
http://www.gpspassion.com/FORUMSEN/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=106662

It won't fulfill all your wishes but it is a GUI based editor that
allows you to select individual tracks in a gpx file, prune undesired 
parts of tracks and optionally view them in Google Maps or OSM! You'll 
have to edit each track individually, unfortunately. No batch mode. But 
there is a long weekend ahead with no mapping..

Ole / polderrunner