I have also wondered about this. The date the track was recorded may
anonymised/obfuscated for privacy reasons. We always have the date of
upload, which is better than nothing I suppose.
On 2019-12-22 12:03, BD wrote:
> Hi,
> couple of days ago I had a chance to drive on the new section of A14 (between
> Brampton and Swavesey junction). I recorder my journey GPS track and now
> would want to upload it the map. However, I've noticed there are plenty of
> old traces present and here is my question:
>
> Over the last few years since I joined this list there were several
> discussions about mapping "current" state of affairs. Latest being the
> disused apartment block. How do we go about GPS traces?
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.3103/-0.2416&layers=G
>
> The above is no longer fully accurate as the traffic has moved to the new
> A14. If I add my latest trace this will only add to the confusion as there is
> no way to separate the GPS info by date (or is there?). Do "we"/OSM manage
> the GPS data so it can be updated when roads change?
>
> Also, looking at the GPS data I found this:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/52.3929/-0.6807&layers=G
> surely, this must be a broken trace which brings no value to the project, is
> there a way to mark/report such errors?
>
> Many thanks,
> dzidek23
>
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