Author: immanuel.scholz[at]gmx.de
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.44am, Saturday, 1st April 2006]

Clarified with Steve and:

Time is required for the Server to enable some nice stuff like acceleration calculation etc. You can still upload files without time, however they will not get imported to the trackpoint table.

Author: A.Pirard[at]ulg.ac.be
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.29am, Saturday, 14th August 2010]

Requiring time tags for still objects is like requiring to number houses with minutes.
No I could not upload files without time, they get deleted and I even receive an e-mail.
So, I have uploaded a file with handmade, dummy time tags, all the same value.
BEWARE if you do nice calculation with that, INFINITE SPEED WILL RESULT !!!
And, whatever the mass, INFINITE ENERGY. The whole earth will explode !!!

OK, OK, but the reasoning is perfectly correct.
Time tags for roads have no meaning, just for the objects moving on them, the GSM in fact.
And the walking, running, biking or driving speed of the tracker is pointless on a map.

So, why trying to be a senseless pest to those who own timeless tracks?
They will have to fake time anyway, so why not let OSM do it?

Patch: sed 's/</trkpt>/1969-07-21T02:56:00Z</time></trkpt>/g'

Author: A.Pirard[at]ulg.ac.be
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.35am, Saturday, 14th August 2010]

Drawing your urgent attention.

My area is without OSM data.
I hope to find and add it.
Without meeting a refusal.

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.22pm, Saturday, 14th August 2010]

Please don't reopen ancient tickets.