Shaun McDonald wrote: > I think the reason for GPS Trace from the API being less important > (rather than using a GPS in general) is because there will be so many > of them that there will be too much noise in places, and the map will > be nearing completion. > > I do agree that people should be heading out on the ground to map > rather than looking for import. It will be more likely that people > will be using things like walking papers than a GPS Trace to do the > mapping. > > Shaun That's still very far off for the part of the world I live in, so I wouldn't worry too much about the future of GPX. As for noise I agree, tools like JOSM (or the API) should have some sort of filtering to exclude old traces when the number of traces reaches a certain threshold. Maybe they already do that?
Igor p.s. maybe you just mapped your places too fast? :) -- http://igorbrejc.net _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

