I had the same problem yesterday. I just renamed my file's name (shorten it, took the underscores("_") off), reloaded it and it went through without problem (maybe the renaming of the GPX has nothing to do with the problem though, I didn't touch the content of the file).

""" Francois - that's really great: have a lolcat. osm.wiki/index.php/Lolcat_of_awesomeness """

Wow, this a really nice ginger cat! Thanks Richard and all for that :)

@ RichardB,

Just a quick kml "week" for now (last week, number 19, 3.4 Mo). I'll add a week stats description and experiment other ways a little latter:

http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-week-latest-v0.kml

OSM world looks pretty localized ;)

@ Robert,

"""Would it be feasible to use NetworkLinks and Regions with osmlib-generated KML tiles?"""

Hi Robert, not sure I understand everything but networkLinks are very easy to do (see KML doc or edit the some OSM Aware network-links KMLs) also it's possible to use the API Com (works on Windows and Mac, not sure about Linux) to retrieve informations like where the user is, what is he looking at (boundaries, altitude, etc...) so I imagine you could dynamically load the relevant KMLs.

KML doc: http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html
GE API Com: http://earth.google.com/comapi/

Few tests I've done with the GE API com and Python (but Ruby should be pretty similar):
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgqhgsgm_933rjw93

For my part I'm not interested to import OSM-KML-maps versions in GE, with the aerial photography behind, to avoid to be influence by GE data in my OSM mapping.

francois

@ RichardB

Thanks Richard for this feedback. As you probably already know It's possible to manually open the different v0 KML which add themselves as "layers" in Google Earth (which should be able to handle that on a good PC):
http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-day/

To avoid the manual handling I'll make soon a week-KML which will automatically load the seven kml-days-v0.

For the "web" visualization I'll probably have to proceed differently to lower the number of placemarks.

I'll also have a look at "overlays" of maping "density". Anyway I'll see what I can do while playing with the ratios "quantity of information"/size/RAM and update the project.

Thanks again for the feedback.

francois

@ "wer-ist-roger",

"""as I understand you use google maps to locate osm-mapper in the world."""

Hi, not exactly, I use KMLs (an open standard) and leave users the freedom to render them in the tool they feel is the most appropriate (Open Layers, Nasa World Wind, Google Earth/Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, ...). See examples on the website.

Since version 2.2, KML is now an Open Standard submitted to the Open GeoSpatial Consortium and begins to be widely use in the scientific community. As you've probably seen, the KMLs produced are not about mapping (they don't show ways anyway) but only for "awareness" of mapping activity.

Personally, I'm mainly using Google Earth for the *big* KMLs v1 and v2 (for world's hours and days) because I don't know any 3D tool produced by OSM which can render half a million nodes and still being able easily 3D-navigate in it.
Concerning Google Maps I personally use it in some cases over Open Layers because of "KML network links" support (which refresh themselves) and to render "descriptive palcemarks" (I haven't found how to do those in Open Layers yet).

So I'm not linked to any tool, it all depend on the situation and I would certainly prefer to use FLOSS tools and maps only. That said if you don't like the KMLs or the OpenLayers/OSM examples, I've spent time to comment the code for others (its Python / GNU GPL) so anyone can use their favorite open standard or morph to their favorite FLOSS tool.

""" But from my perspective services like this HAVE TO BE with osm-material!"""

Yes I mainly agree (see OpenLayers/OSM examples when it's possible) but I won't go in similar debate as ("Should we allow Internet Explorer to render the GFDL wikipedia content?","Should we ban CC-BY and CC-BY-SA pictures on Flickr since Flickr is not FLOSS?", etc).

If OSM had an "awareness" interest/tool I certainly wouldn't have loose time to develop that. I did it for myself (to easily spot active local mappers and encourage myself to map more), and thought other people could be interested or have similar needs.

francois

Congratulations and thanks Richard! (Potlatch is my primary editor). I think it is an essential part to open OSM beyond alpha/uber geeks (and that is essential for OSM future). All the best for future versions!

ok, just realized uploading a new image replaces the old one. Doh!