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GPS Traces

Posted by CatastropheAsh on 6 January 2010 in English.

Currently uploading GPS traces is too hard, and I've pretty much stopped doing it. D:

I used to have a system that automatically tagged and uploaded everything in a directory based on filename. That was before the 0.6 API, so now it doesn't work. My workflow also no longer lets me rename files so I can't easily tag them in the field.

I would *love* a tool that could calculate an average speed for a GPS file and tag it motorcar/bicycle/foot automatically, although I'm presuming this doesn't exist.

Failing that, what's everybody using to upload their files? I'd love to be able to set a cron job to upload & delete everything in a directory at 4 AM or something. Please advise. :)

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په 6 January 2010 په 20:18 باندې د daveemtb تبصره

Must admit, Ive got lazy with uploading GPX files :( Once in a blue moon I get round to uploading ost of them but I'm sure some drop through the cracks.

په 6 January 2010 په 20:58 باندې د Richard تبصره

There's a Perl script on the wiki somewhere that'll upload a GPX using the 0.6 API. But I'm jiggered if I can find it.

په 7 January 2010 په 07:11 باندې د goldfndr تبصره

The wiki article is "Batch Upload". osm.wiki/Batch_Upload

په 8 January 2010 په 22:04 باندې د Anna_AG تبصره

I admit I am a little lazy - after a week of caching ( if I am on holiday etc ) I will just load all the GPX files from my Garmin Legend HCX into JOSM, Merge them all down, tidy them up using GPXedit plugin ( getting rid of all the stationary lumps of points etc ) and save that single GPX file for uploading to the website.

I am always a little puzzled that my GPX traces seem to have lines that link unrelated points, but I understand you can remove time and date info from the GPX data points - would this remove the lines? I don't know if this is best practice, but when downloading areas in JOSM it is hard sometimes to make out the data from the random junk lines.

Comments anyone?
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په 9 January 2010 په 01:32 باندې د CatastropheAsh تبصره

Yes, JOSM has an interesting habit of connecting up unrelated bits. You can go into the settings and make it so that it won't draw a line between points that are further apart than, say, 50 metres, and that will usually fix that. :)

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