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

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 16:04:20 BST 2010


2010/10/13 Sam Wilson <sam at archives.org.au>:
>  Hi,
>
> I work for a company in Western Australia that has a dozen or so vehicles
> traveling all over regional WA and all equipped with GPS trackers, taking
> waypoints at 30s intervals.  I am going to be allowed to upload the data to
> OSM.  I'm just wondering what issues I'm facing...


I feel that 30s per trackpoint is not quite much. For a truck
travelling at 80km per hour this would be one trackpoint every 667
metres. Not really enough to get even the idea where a curve is, but
OK if the streets are perfectly straight and there is nothing around
;-)

Cheers,
Martin



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