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API should be modified to have better access to GPX data #1605

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 6 comments
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API should be modified to have better access to GPX data #1605

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 6 comments

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Reporter: stoecker
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.45pm, Tuesday, 17th February 2009]

JOSM uses the GPX point download API and has lots of problems with it:

  • No method to decide whether points are connected or not (track data is lost)
  • track data with equal time stamps is intermixed and there is no way to separate them
  • point order is reversed (e.g. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1555)

The API should support a much better method to access that data which solves all these problems.
Best would be to pass data as individual track segments.

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Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.27pm, Tuesday, 17th February 2009]

Much of this is deliberate, to preserve the privacy/anonymity of the data.

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Author: openstreetmap[at]dstoecker.de
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.36pm, Tuesday, 17th February 2009]

This means we have first class users (Potlatch) and second class users (API)?

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Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.37pm, Tuesday, 17th February 2009]

I am not responsible for the fact that the Potlatch author decided to sneak round these restrictions, although I probably am culpable for deploying them without insisting on changes.

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Author: xeen
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.36pm, Saturday, 21st February 2009]

So it's actually not a bug in JOSM but Potlatch? If it's about privacy JOSM's "track guessing" is probably too much already. Clarification would be great, so we can support the actual intention.

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Author: openstreetmap[at]firefishy.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.04am, Friday, 14th August 2009]

Fixed in r17044

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Author: cyron[at]winboard.org
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.45pm, Sunday, 13th September 2009]

The question is how it is a privacy problem to serve points in it's order (as ways) if there is no connection to a user, and ... it would be nice to ask a user questions to tracks ...

So maybe it should be selectable for users if the tracks should be published under a pseudonym or with anonymous like this.

Thats one of the major reasons why I doesn't upload gps tracks, because nobody knows how the track was created, like I walk along the road on the sidewalk or something like this, and the next user use it for the center line of the street.

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