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

[Ian Dees]

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David, can you send me a sample file? I'd be happy to write something that
consumes a GPX file and tries to pull out the points that are clumped
together like that.

Or maybe you've already figured out a solution to your problem and don't
need such a thing.

Let me know,
Ian

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Ebling <dave_ebling at yahoo.co.uk>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.
>
> Any programmers out there want to take up this idea while we have some down
> time? :D Please? :) I'll upload lots of GPX files in return! ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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