Uploaded tracks without problem (did get mail to confirm).
When using the gps-icon in Potlatch, some gps-traces are visible, but not mine.
When using ‘edit’, starting at my gps-trace, it shows up fine in Potlatch.
Looks like the trace isn’t really inserted in the database? Some not by me understood Potlatch-feature?
To check tried to download gps-traces of certain area, but by lack of tags in data, can’t tell if trace is in database.
Couldn’t find other info on subject.
It might be that your GPS traces don’t have ascending timestamps. Potlatch requires them to work out the order in which to draw the line.
There’s a timestamp:
But all timestamps are equal!
Think I used Prune in the wrong way, remember maybe relevant check-box now. Will make new gpx-file and test again.
Is it Potlatch which requires ascending timestamps? Potlatch does show the trace using ‘edit’ when starting at the gps-traces screen:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/doortrapper/traces/259610
It’s not showing the trace when starting at the map (other traces can be seen though).
If new gpx-file shows up, looks like gpx-traces without ascending timestamps are not inserted in the database, or available to Potlatch in one way or another?
Afaik, the upload API rejects any GPX file which does not have timestamps where Potlatch also needs incremental timestamps.
As stated:
and
Other gpx, same problem.
With correct timestamps, tracks get visible, thanks Richard!
Despite the mail, think the track isn’t loaded in database (that’s why ‘it lookes like’ in the notification mail?)? Why not a message that’s there a problem with timestamps?
Hi,
I believe it is in the database and it can be verified with JOSM by downloading GPS data from that area. I an guessing that Potlatch, when used through Edit, reads the data from the uploaded file and otherwise from the database and that makes the difference.
Potlatch only draws GPS traces with lines between them - it doesn’t do them as individual dots. This means that it has to know what order they’re in.
If you click ‘Edit’ next to the trace, that’s easy. It can just get the order by reading through the file, point by point.
But if you click the GPS icon (which reads from the database, not the raw uploaded file), it has to look at the timestamps to find what order they’re in. If your timestamps are all the same, it can’t do this, so can’t display the track.
This is a unique feature of Potlatch. However, the points are still valid for inclusion in the database, as the XML API (as used by JOSM and Merkaartor) doesn’t provide any ordering information at all - just the co-ordinates of the points. So if you upload a GPX with non-ascending timestamps, it can be used in JOSM and Merkaartor but not Potlatch.
Thanks, 100% clear now!
‘Problem’ is I’m using only Potlatch, no offline editors, so I’m not able to check in an easy way whether the data are included in database or not. I do realize now that I’m not able to see other people traces when not timestamped correctly (no idea what’s the ’ default’)
So, when no (ascending) timestamps available, some ‘could have’ import-features could be: