[OSM-talk] Bulk Upload of GPX data

[John Smith]

I posted to the forums, but didn't get any response and it was suggested I post here to inform people what's happening.

I have written a speedometer app for Android handsets that uses the GPS information to display an analog speed dial.

I originally wrote the app as a way to record GPS information so you can dispute speeding tickets, the speedo function came after as a response to requests from users.

I recently updated the app to upload GPX data to a work server which then batch uploads it to OSM servers. There was almost 1200 GPS traces uploaded based on 50 GPS points or more, I recently decided to limit it to 300+ points and pruned the traces down to about 500, most seem to have about 1000 points, although one has as much as 95,000 points.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Bigtincan%20Android%20App%20Account/traces

This isn't the first app to do this, I noticed AndNav2 does the same thing although I don't know specific details about what they do filtering wise.