[OSM-talk] Ongoing bulk uploads of GPS traces?
Sam Wilson
sam at archives.org.au
Fri Oct 22 06:47:25 BST 2010
On 2010-10-13 3:50 PM, Sam Wilson wrote:
> 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...
>
> 1. We use OSM maps for navigation, and so management are quite able to
> see the value that could arise from our giving this data to OSM,
> because it would make the maps better. But there is a bit of a gap
> between lots-of-GPS-traces and lots-of-well-tagged-roads! What can I
> do to bridge this gap? (I mean, trace over the GPS trace, I know, but
> that's going to leave a lot of 'highway=road' tags; is that okay?)
>
> 2. What form of permission do I need to get from management, and where
> does it get saved? Is there a pro forma letter somewhere? What licence
> do we release the data under?
>
> 3. Is a single daily trace suitable? I mean, all vehicles' traces put
> together in one file and uploaded (under, I guess, a separate account
> -- but still owned by me)? Or is there some automatic way of doing this?
>
> But really: is this worthwhile? Will my company benefit? Will OSM
> benefit?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Sam.
>
Okay, I've uploaded the first few traces. I posted a diary entry about
it all:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sam%20Wilson/diary/12085
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