[OSM-talk] Ongoing bulk uploads of GPS traces?

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Wed Oct 13 10:18:28 BST 2010


On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:53:59 +0800
Sam Wilson <sam at archives.org.au> wrote:

>   On 13/10/10 4:39 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > Would you consider uploading the traces to an independent point,
> > specifying the licence of the traces and giving permission for them
> > to be traced into OSM / other maps (you specify what) and perhaps
> > this could then be downloaded as a separate layer into editors?
> 
> Yes, I could do that, absolutely.  Do you think this is a better 
> option?  It would make the traces less apparent to lots of people
> (i.e. they wouldn't be included when someone clicks the "Also get GPS
> traces" checkbox in Merkaartor for example), but I guess I could
> advertise their existence to Australian mappers etc.
> 
>
There was a Russian transport mob who managed to completely overload
the track upload system trying to put up gps traces to the main
database. Separate hosting would keep that from happening - WA is on
the same huge scale as Russia.



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