anyone in my area want to help me learn this. Having touble piping in my gps puck into OSM. I do SKYWARN and use my laptop and gps regulalry with other applications with no issues. I just want to learn osm.
OpenStreetMap
anyone in my area want to help me learn this. Having touble piping in my gps puck into OSM. I do SKYWARN and use my laptop and gps regulalry with other applications with no issues. I just want to learn osm.
Discussion
Comment from 0235 on 23 November 2025 at 11:56
I am not in your area, but you are able to export the GPS traces as “.gpx, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, .zip, .gpx.gz, .gpx.bz2” files, you can go here and upload them directly to the OSM website, and they will then appear in your profile, under traces.
osm.org/traces/new
@strtkempo/traces
Once they appear, you can click “edit map” to the right of a trace, and this will open the ID editor for OSM, with an overlay of the trace.
Alternatively, you can use other software like JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap editor) and add the .GPX or similar traces as a layer.
I would recommend getting used to other basic mapping techniques though before trying to use GPS traces. Mapping from bing satellite images is normally quite common, and can sometimes be more accurate than mapping from GPS traces.
https://learnosm.org/en/