I have recently been given permission from the company that I work for to upload the GPS traces from our fleet of vehicles. These are twenty or so trucks and 4WDs that travel the length and breadth of the south-west of Western Australia, often along small roads and farm tracks, etc. They each have a GPS tracker taking readings at 30s intervals and sending these (when possible; there's a delay when out of range) back to a central server via the GSM network.
I get hold of these traces as week-by-week NMEA files (containing all vehicles' data), and convert them to GPX with this gpsbabel command. Then I upload them. They're about 15000-20000 points each.
I'm going to try to get the sampling frequency increased, because there's lots of areas for which these points are too far apart. Although, I guess as the density of points increases (i.e. from multiple trips along the same roads) the topography will become clearer.
Now, the tracing begins! :-) If anyone wants to help....
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Athugasemd eftir lebsanbe sett inn 22. október 2010 kl. 10:51
Great! keep up the good work!
Athugasemd eftir PurpleMustang sett inn 22. október 2010 kl. 15:12
What type of highway classification would you prefer?
Athugasemd eftir Sam Wilson sett inn 22. október 2010 kl. 16:07
@PurpleMustang: I've just been doing
highway=road
, because really I haven't got any more of an idea of what the roads are like out there. What other options do you think would be appropriate?Athugasemd eftir malenki sett inn 22. október 2010 kl. 20:04
A link to the account on which you upload the traces or a link to the traces itself would be helpful. So one would know where to start mapping.
Athugasemd eftir dle0 sett inn 22. október 2010 kl. 23:54
Many thanks to your company for letting you do this!
I see only a handful of traces at osm.org/user/Sam%20Wilson/traces
Is this the right place to look?
Athugasemd eftir WarrenP sett inn 23. október 2010 kl. 00:57
Sam, I am happy to help. I also live in Perth (Sawyers Valley). I know the south west very well. I am new to OSM but it looks not that difficult.
Athugasemd eftir Sam Wilson sett inn 23. október 2010 kl. 01:29
@malenki, @David Leonard: Yes, I'm uploading them under this username. However, the ones I've done so far I did as private, but of course that's really not going to work is it? I've modified the timestamps, and removed a massive chunk of the Perth metro area (I figured on uploading as private before I'd sorted out how to do these things), so I'll change them to public (later; "The GPX file upload system is currently unavailable").
@WarrenP: Welcome! OSM is certainly not that difficult; it's local knowledge that makes all the difference, I think. Lots of the traces I'll be uploading will be for areas about which I know nothing, so your help will be great. What editor are you using? (May I recommend Merkaartor?)
Athugasemd eftir WarrenP sett inn 23. október 2010 kl. 05:18
I added a couple of roads in my area just using the online editor, seems fine but I can see a bit restricted. I have now downloaded Meraartor, seems fairly intuitive. It is certainly an advantage not having to upload the .gpx files. Especialy since there seems to be a problem at the moment, I just get a 404 error.
I am happy to help when I can, just need access to your .gpx data.