OpenStreetMap
A bit over a year ago I started uploading weekly dumps of the GPS traces from my company's fleet. I've uploaded a bit over half a gigabyte of data since then, or 20,000 to 50,000 points per week, and party render thinks it looks like this:
python render.py -d .. -g none -r 1000 --pos=-32.901318,117.776609
I trace over bits and pieces now and then, but I'm not doing much. I was just wondering whether anyone else is mapping in rural Western Australia and finding these traces useful?
Discussion
Comment from Harry Wood on 3 November 2011 at 11:55
Hi Sam. It's cool that you have all this GPS data. Looks like it covers a massive area centred around Perth. I just picked a spot, downloaded the GPS points and quickly found some roads which needed adding. Pretty useful I'd say!
Comment from Sam Wilson on 3 November 2011 at 12:04
Thanks Harry! It is centred around Perth indeed; this is where all the vehicles are based. They go out for 10–14 day swings, taking GPS positions every ~30s.
Did you notice my tracey subterfuge with a big empty circle around the Perth metro area?! I get the data in massive clumps of nmea files, and process them with gpsbabel using
-x radius,distance=20K,lat=-31.995815,lon=115.73512,nosort,excludeI wish I had more time to map things, but it's hardly a central part of my employment... :-(
Comment from HannesHH on 3 November 2011 at 16:16
Thank you so much for sharing these tracks.
Comment from Takuto on 4 November 2011 at 09:38
GPS track is bliss, really. I wish some company here, in Russia upload this amount of data - since some areas stil doesnt have Bing imagery, GPS is only way to know if there is road here.
So thank you for data, they definitely useful for OSM.