As people have probably noticed, we had a small accident about ten days ago which caused some of the metadata for uploaded GPX traces to be lost. We do still have the trace files, we just don't know who uploaded some of them.

In order to help associate the files we have with the right users it would be helpful if people could send me a list of the traces they have and some details about them so I can try and match them up to the files we have on the server.

To help with this there is a tool available in subversion - you can download it here:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/misc/search_tracklogs/listTraces.pl

It is a perl script which will generate an XML file listing all the traces it finds. You should run it as follows:

listTraces.pl [display-name] [public?] [directory]

It will recursively search the named directory for GPX traces and generate a file named tracelist.xml which you can review and then send to me at tomh@openstreetmap.org to be matched up against the files we hold.

The [display-name] argument should match your display name on OSM and the [public?] argument should be either 0 or 1 to indicate if you wish the traces to made public or not - ie whether they should be visible to people other than you on the site.

Thanks for your assistance,

TomH