Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Gert Gremmen
ns Lambert Carsten Verzonden: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:51 PM Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks On Thursday 25 September 2008 18:53:00 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > It is not intended to "protect" OSM against infringement at all. It&#

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Thursday 25 September 2008 18:53:00 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > It is not intended to "protect" OSM against infringement at all. It's there > as a statement about the ethos of the project that you don't upload data > from copyright sources. Of course we all know it's possible to c

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Lambert Carsten wrote: >Sent: 25 September 2008 5:36 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks > >On Thursday 25 September 2008 18:01:36 Karl wrote: > >> The GPX tracks are intended to show the basis for the ways and other data >> that

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Thursday 25 September 2008 18:01:36 Karl wrote: > The GPX tracks are intended to show the basis for the ways and other data > that is in the database, so I think one motivation for timestamps hearkens > back to a desire to "show your work" to defend the source of OSM data > against potential fu

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GPX tracks are intended to show the basis for the ways and other data > that is in the database, so I think one motivation for timestamps hearkens > back to a desire to "show your work" to defend the source of OSM data >

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Lambert Carsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:21:59 Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Lambert Carsten wrote: > > > This decision needs more thought. Although I personally don't have a > > > privacy issue here there are clearly those that

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:21:59 Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Lambert Carsten wrote: > > This decision needs more thought. Although I personally don't have a > > privacy issue here there are clearly those that do > > Just don't set your track as public - then the timestamps won't be exposed. I

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lambert Carsten wrote: > This decision needs more thought. Although I personally don't have a privacy > issue here there are clearly those that do Just don't set your track as public - then the timestamps won't be exposed. cheers Richard ___ talk mai

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Lambert Carsten
Hi, Thanks for the tips pointing to Viking! I am just starting to get to grips with the way it works, but it's definitely usefull. And probably for other things I still have to discover as of yet. I am still curious to know why these time stamps are necessary. It seems an arbitrary decision b

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Christoph Böhme
Lambert Carsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is also a privacy advantage not uploading the unnecessary time > stamps. I am sure there are many that hesitate to upload tracks for > privacy reasons. A while ago I wrote a small shell script which did the following things: - It removes trackpoin

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Lambert Carsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to upload a couple of gpx tracks that I had cleaned up with Josm. > They > were refused with a message that seems to suggest thy are missing time > stamps > (possibly missing altitude). > > Why does opens

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Celso González
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:35:49PM +0200, Lambert Carsten wrote: > Maybe someone can point me to some editor with which I can easily clean up > the > tracks without clearing out the time stamps (personally I don't have a > problem uploading that info). I use viking (http://sourceforge.net/proj

[OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Thread Lambert Carsten
Hi, I tried to upload a couple of gpx tracks that I had cleaned up with Josm. They were refused with a message that seems to suggest thy are missing time stamps (possibly missing altitude). Why does openstreetmap want timestamps? There is no reason for this. I want to clean up my tracks to prev