[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi,


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Ilya Zverev <zverik at textual.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As you know, almost half a year ago a GPX Planet was released
> (http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-data/). At the time
> I expressed a hope that someone would process that file, making tile layer
> and regional extracts. Alas, in those months the file has only been
> statistically analyzed (thanks to Pascal Neis and Steven Kay), but no
> practical use for that array of data has been found. Well, as they say, OSM
> is do-ocracy: if you want something, the only way to get it is to do it
> yourself. So, after several weeks of coding and impatiently waiting for
> processing to finish, I present to you:
>
> 1) A tile layer of GPS points for the whole world down to zoom 11:
> http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/

Cool to see this on a map, and indeed useful for remapping. Also, it
reminds me to upload more GPS tracks. I almost never do that anymore.
Maybe if I could do it straight from JOSM....


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martijn van exel
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