Hi all,

Sorry my edits are a bit controversial. I’d love to make it less controversial next time, so some guidelines for how detailed it should be would be appreciated.

See, when we go test our software, we are literally walking several miles a day with an end result of beautiful data. Nevertheless, it is sitting in our computers, and after we run our tests, it just stays there. Trails, golf courses, parks, etc. I wanted to encourage the rest of folks at AmigoCloud to share their data to OSM so other people can benefit from it.

Riviera Country Club was extra interesting to me because before last week it was effectively empty in OSM and I wanted it to be better than the Google Maps version.

Of course, we I can post process the data in our pipeline. I can easily run st_simplifipreservetopology with a specific tolerance X and do some other PostGIS magic to space out the vertices by an X threshold before export. I can skip JOSM’s simplification functionality and tweak the results exactly as desired.

I’d just love to know what that X is. 1m? 5m? 10m? Whatever is good for cartographic output? Something a bit higher? The beauty of OSM, as we all know, is that it is obviously way more than cartographic output by now. Any particular link in the OSM wiki that can help me with choosing these thresholds?

I walked a few trails this weekend and I was thinking about uploading that data, but I also want to be cautious since I don’t want to piss anybody off. Some people have explicitly asked me for end to end tutorial on how they can use their iPhone / Android to do exactly this, but I don’t want to publish a workflow that is not sanctioned and will cause headaches for people in the community.

Any concerns or questions, feel free to contact me directly or here. My contact is my [email protected]