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 wonderin
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Sam Wilson wrote:
> On 2010-10-16 10:01 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
>
>> Also IIRC you can use gpsbabel to set the
>> timestamps in your file to one second gaps beginning at unix epoch, so
>> that would give your vehicles outrageous speeds during 1970.
>>
>> Also you
On 2010-10-16 10:01 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
Also IIRC you can use gpsbabel to set the
timestamps in your file to one second gaps beginning at unix epoch, so
that would give your vehicles outrageous speeds during 1970.
Also you can choose the privacy settings for your traces to prevent
sharing
Or, if there are clear working hours, ditch anything before 9am or
after 6pm, or whatever.
Steve
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Alan Millar wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Sam Wilson wrote:
>> Hmm... there will be a concentration of points near drivers'
>> homes... but then again
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Sam Wilson wrote:
> Hmm... there will be a concentration of points near drivers'
> homes... but then again, also near every place they stop as well. Is this
> something to worry about?
If you felt protective about it, you could make a list of polygons
surround
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Sam Wilson wrote:
> We've got, it looks like, the last three months or so of tracks from about
> twenty vehicles, and I can break the data up into whatever chunks I want.
> I've been working with one track file per seven days, which seems to be
> about a 6-8MB gpx
On 16/10/10 10:01 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
I'd also double check that there aren't privacy concerns - gpx traces
contain time information - is your company happy releasing that? Would
it compromise them? Do the drivers get a say?
Good point. If privacy or business practices are a concern, you
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
>> But really: is this worthwhile? Will my company benefit? Will OSM benefit?
> I'd also double check that there aren't privacy concerns - gpx traces
> contain time information - is your company happy releasing that? Would
> it compromise th
> But really: is this worthwhile? Will my company benefit? Will OSM benefit?
Hi Sam, it definitely sounds worthwhile to me, and your company and
OSM will benefit. One thing you didn't mention: how many gpx tracks do
you have so far? Or is this just for going forward?
If you can increase the fre
>
> I've been looking into the format that the traces will come in, and it
> looks like a weekly NMEA dump is going to be the least work for me -- a
> single file, with all vehicles, that I can gpsbabel into GPX and upload.
> But I'm open to suggestions on that
>
If you use Merkaartor, don't
On 2010-10-14 1:35 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
Thank you for taking the initiative arrange this with your company.
If you get the opportunity to change your data acquisition to one
track point per second you'll find the traces much nicer for creating
junctions, ramps, exits, fuel stations etc.
I
On 2010-10-14 3:35 AM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:04:20 +0200
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
OK if the streets are perfectly straight and there is nothing around
;-)
Perfect for rural and remote Western Australia then.
(This is the part of the world that owns the longest railway
On 2010-10-13 5:12 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
You'd be releasing the data under CC-BY-SA and ODbL. If you are acting
on behalf of the copyright owner, then you don't need to add any
further documentation -- simply uploading the data is enough to show
you agree to the licences.
Great! I might
On 13 October 2010 20:35, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:04:20 +0200
> M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> > OK if the streets are perfectly straight and there is nothing around
> > ;-)
> Perfect for rural and remote Western Australia then.
> (This is the part of the world that owns t
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:04:20 +0200
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> OK if the streets are perfectly straight and there is nothing around
> ;-)
Perfect for rural and remote Western Australia then.
(This is the part of the world that owns the longest railway straight
in existence)
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:50 AM, 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.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2010/10/13 Sam Wilson :
> > 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 goin
2010/10/13 Sam Wilson :
> 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 issu
Am 13.10.2010 10:53, schrieb Sam Wilson:
On 13/10/10 4:39 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
Would you consider uploading the traces to an independent point,
specifying the licence of the traces and giving permission for them to
be traced into OSM / other maps (you specify what) and perhaps this
could th
Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> There was a Russian transport mob who managed to completely
> overload the track upload system trying to put up gps traces to
> the main database. Separate hosting would keep that from
> happening - WA is on the same huge scale as Russia.
Different issue. The issue with
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:53:59 +0800
Sam Wilson wrote:
> On 13/10/10 4:39 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > Would you consider uploading the traces to an independent point,
> > specifying the licence of the traces and giving permission for them
> > to be traced into OSM / other maps (you specify what
On 13/10/2010 08:50, Sam Wilson wrote:
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-
On 13/10/10 4:39 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
Would you consider uploading the traces to an independent point,
specifying the licence of the traces and giving permission for them to
be traced into OSM / other maps (you specify what) and perhaps this
could then be downloaded as a separate layer into
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 OS
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