Comments on: JOSM in the evening http://mappinghacks.com/2006/10/10/josm-in-the-evening/ by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: RichardH http://mappinghacks.com/2006/10/10/josm-in-the-evening/#comment-173 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:11:54 +0000 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/10/10/josm-in-the-evening/#comment-173 I've just spent a pleasant weekend walking in the Surrey Hills with OSM folks( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Surrey_Hills_England ), and now I've got to upload my traces to OSM. But first I need to clean up the wobbles and fix the satellite dropouts. As you say, "JOSM provides basic editing capacity for key-value pairs", but at least in my hands (I'm a casual user, not a power user) JOSM doesnt seem to be very good for deleting and joining up bits of track. I think what is needed here is a sort of IDE for gpx files. The editor would have two panes; a map view in one pane and a data view in the other. You'd do your editting in the data view (which would have rows and cols like excel) and the results of the edits would show up in real time in the map view. Do you know if such an editor exists? People who drive, or cycle, straight from A to B may not need this sort of editting, but I think this would be particularly appreciated by walkers, because our tracks tend to need a bit more cleaning up; sometimes over several hundred km (see my problems at http://users.skynet.be/watermael/gps/50358.html for example) So far, the best I've found is GPS TrackMaker (http://www.gpstm.com/ ). This provides a pretty good map view, but (at least in the free version) no data view. I've just had to resort to perl to work over the satellite dropouts. Your comments would be appreciated I’ve just spent a pleasant weekend walking in the Surrey Hills with OSM folks( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Surrey_Hills_England ), and now I’ve got to upload my traces to OSM. But first I need to clean up the wobbles and fix the satellite dropouts.

As you say, “JOSM provides basic editing capacity for key-value pairs”, but at least in my hands (I’m a casual user, not a power user) JOSM doesnt seem to be very good for deleting and joining up bits of track.

I think what is needed here is a sort of IDE for gpx files. The editor would have two panes; a map view in one pane and a data view in the other. You’d do your editting in the data view (which would have rows and cols like excel) and the results of the edits would show up in real time in the map view.

Do you know if such an editor exists?

People who drive, or cycle, straight from A to B may not need this sort of editting, but I think this would be particularly appreciated by walkers, because our tracks tend to need a bit more cleaning up; sometimes over several hundred km (see my problems at http://users.skynet.be/watermael/gps/50358.html for example)

So far, the best I’ve found is GPS TrackMaker (http://www.gpstm.com/ ). This provides a pretty good map view, but (at least in the free version) no data view. I’ve just had to resort to perl to work over the satellite dropouts.

Your comments would be appreciated

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