OpenStreetMap Then and Now

Re:OpenStreetMap Then and Now by unicornporn on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:13PM (#8163834)

There are also some forest paths that I'd like to track. For them I guess I need GPX tracks (they can't be seen from satelite). I've installed GPSLogger. I guess I could just upload those files to Open Street Map for use in the iD Editor.

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Re:OpenStreetMap Then and Now by Brakenshire on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:31PM (#8163909)

There is one other option for forest paths - Strava have made available their GPS heatmap for editing OpenStreetMap:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/

http://strava.github.io/iD/

So, depending on where you live, you may find local trails are on there (although you've still got to go in person to confirm they do actually exist, and to know exactly what they are - mountain bike trails, or narrow footpaths, or wide tracks for horses and 4x4s). In theory, it means you can shift effort away from sorting out gpx tracks, and more into getting the contextual information correct.

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Re:OpenStreetMap Then and Now by unicornporn on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:32PM (#8169689)

That's great! Thanks!

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Re:OpenStreetMap Then and Now by bhousel on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:38PM (#8163951)

I do a lot of this kind of mapping too. You can drag and drop a gpx file onto iD and it will show on the map to make tracing easy.

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Re:OpenStreetMap Then and Now by sashazykov on Monday August 11, 2014 @05:14PM (#8165340)

You can use OsmAnd to record a gps track and send it to OpenStreetMap. It will be available in most editors, including iD. Althought, you can use any gps tracker and upload a track here http://www.openstreetmap.org/trace/create

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