[OSM-talk] sanity check for maintaining GPS tracks

[Julio Costa Zambelli]

Niklas,

I think what Maning meant was how to clean the track itself, sometimes you
have very long lines (in the middle or the end of the track) that do not
represent the track that you droved or walked. At first this "crazy lines"
will not be a problem, but eventually you will press the "g" key in Potlatch
for a certain area and it will show just too many of those lines to
distinguish the good ones.

An example of those "crazy lines" here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zambelli%20Limitada/traces/664979

Is there an application that someone can recommend to manually "clean" the
track before uploading it to OSM?

Regards,

Julio Costa


2010/4/13 Niklas Cholmkvist <towardsoss at gmail.com>

> maning sent:
>
> > I have hundreds of GPS tracks. Some are uploaded in OSM, some I forgot
> > to upload.  Some are clean, some are dirty, some are squiggly and some
> > are a big cloud of points pointing to my house.
> Are you troubled about privacy? (you mention points, pointing to your
> house)
> Many of my gps traces also point to my house, although from my mapping
> it's anyway easy to locate my house.(if one really wants to find out)
>
> > Any advice on how to maintain/clean the tracks before uploading?
> I have 3 folders:
> 1. "Private traces" - all my private traces that I don't feel I want to
> share
> 2. "Public traces" - traces that I want to share, but I've not uploaded
> yet.(can be that I still have other uploaded traces that I want to
> organise more)
> 3. "Uploaded traces" - Here go files from "Public traces" that have been
> uploaded to OSM.
>
> Currently my "Public traces" is empty. That is because I moved all my
> gpx traces to the "Uploaded traces" folder. I don't think I'm explaining
> any serious organisation scheme, just how I personally organise my
> traces.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Niklas
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