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

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Wed Oct 13 17:53:05 BST 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
> ;-)
>

And perfectly fine if there are multiple journeys along the same route.
This data is definitely of value.
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