[OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrlists at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 19 10:20:57 GMT 2009


Yann Coupin wrote:
>Sent: 19 March 2009 8:22 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload
>working?")
>
>As an aside, while I was using some traces I made and I wanted to
>compare them to existing one, I realized that downloding points using
>the API doesn't return the hdop that was available in the original
>file, this is really a shame as it's an important info to judge the
>quality of tracks...

That’s correct; the database only holds the location for each trackpoint and
not any other data. You need to download the original tracklogs for the full
data (assuming the log in question has been made publicly available by the
uploader)

Cheers

Andy

>
>Yann
>
>Le 18 mars 09 à 16:19, Kærast a écrit :
>
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:58:41 +0000 (UTC)
>> Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I try to upload a GPS track using
>>> <http://openstreetmap.org/traces/mine>, it takes a while and then
>>> gives a blank page.  The track does not appear in the list (even as
>>> 'pending').
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing the same?
>>>
>>
>> I had something similar this morning, it seemed to upload ok but
>> didn't
>> appear in the list as pending and then I got an import failure email:
>>
>> failed to import. Here's the error:
>>
>>  Unable to open /store/gpx/traces/335849.gpx (errno=No such file or
>> directory) XML parser at line 0 column 0
>>
>> Since that trace didn't actually add much new I gave up and just
>> used it locally.  I've just uploaded another trace though which has
>> uploaded and parsed ok.
>>
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