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

Peter Körner osm-lists at mazdermind.de
Wed Oct 13 15:23:13 BST 2010


Am 13.10.2010 10:53, schrieb Sam Wilson:
> 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.

One possibility would be to present it as WMS. Most editors have WMS 
support and you can use standard GIS tools to do so.

Peter



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