During the downtime I figured I should really catch up with cleaning up my huge
backlog of GPX files and prepare them for upload. I have many many hours of
tracks on my HDD that I have not uploaded because many of them are polluted
with point clouds around my house and my relatives' houses. I am not happy to
upload these for privacy reasons and also for data purity reasons.
I am not very command line compatible, and can't find *any* gui tool for Mac or
Windows that will let me do this. GPX Babel only seems to let you remove points
outside a radius not inside the radius, unless you use the exclude option which
appears to be command line only. It also takes lat and long in an annoying
format (decimal minutes, neither decimal degrees nor degrees, minutes and
seconds.) It also seems only to be able to process one file at a time on the
Mac version I've played with.
Is there any program out there that will do this easily? If not OSM would
really benefit from one, as I think there are many people like me who aren't
uploading GPX because cleaning them up is simply too much effort. Here's my
idea for someone with more programming skills than me:
-A dialogue box that uses an OSM slippy map to draw circles of exclusion on the
map, with a guidance note suggesting that they are near and covering but not
exactly centred on your home/work/other point cloud locations.
-Ability to batch process that's user friendly
-Output to a new folder
-Ideally, upload direct to OSM, to be considerate to other users, perhaps over
a specified time interval.
Any programmers out there want to take up this idea while we have some down
time? :D Please? :) I'll upload lots of GPX files in return! ;)
Thanks,
Dave
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