This is a question on talk page of Visibility of GPS traces. This is a question for me too. Is it a mistake or it has a meaning I'm not aware of that?
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Since 7th November 2018 (background: see my other, older "answer" here) "unordered" means more less what it says: your uploaded points are available via the Privacy notes: If there are multiple such unordered traces in an area then it is not easy (of not impossible) to reconstruct a single trace. However, be aware: if there is only a single trace uploaded in a specific area, then it may be obvious that all the few points in that area belong together (like breadcrumbs on a path). Further note that although the points are available only unordered they are available publicly - in contrast to what one may interpret into the label "private". Hence, it is no good idea to upload traces of secret places - see strava's issues with this in January 2018. |
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I think that is just a text mistake and it should be "ordered" points on the website. We likely all agree that with the few traces which we have a point cloud (which unordered would mean) is of not much sense (this is different for e.g. Strava who have many many points and can produce a heatmeap/pointcloud from that). I simply tested it: In 2014 I uploaded Screenshot of the downloaded trace (thin, green) and the original trace (thick, darkred) opened from a local gpx file for comparison and a default map in the background.
Screenshot of the downloaded traces list in JOSM showing no info about my "private" trace. In fact the "length" given is fully wrong because that is apparently the summarized length of all private traces in that download area together.
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I think the devs like to get requests at github instead of trac, anybody using github willing to request a change of the wording?
(06 Nov '18, 16:29)
aseerel4c26 ♦
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… API behaviour has now been changed to adhere to the descriptions (NOT the wiki descriptions!). As we could guess, there is now a JOSM issue with GPS point downloading: JOSM ticket. (Update:) I created a Potlatch2 ticket, too.
(07 Nov '18, 14:57)
aseerel4c26 ♦
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I have uploaded nearly 500 gpx 'Public' traces on the basis that they were displayed with lines joining the points on JOSM and the Standard lay of OpenStreetMap.org with'Public GPS Traces'selected. Will this still be the case or will I need to upload nearly 500 traces again as 'Trackable' to get a sensible display of the traces.
(08 Nov '18, 06:56)
nevw
@nevw: I agree, that it is quite unfortunate that the API behaved a very long time in the way it did and that it is changed all of a sudden now. At least re-uploading is not needed; you could change the visibility setting for each of your traces: Go to your uploaded traces list, click on the trace (not click "edit"!), then click "Edit this trace", then change the visibility and save. However, note that the "trackable" option is publishing more details (exact timestamps!) than the "old private" did. Maybe another visibility option providing that "old private" behaviour would be good to have. Or a complete revamp of the visibility options... I would love to have trackable with masked timestamps: all original timestamps shifted by a random about in order to hide the original time, but to still convey the real speed info.
(08 Nov '18, 08:29)
aseerel4c26 ♦
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If a revamp of the visibility options was done it would also be helpful to be able to alter our trace option choice in bulk.
(08 Nov '18, 10:20)
nevw
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Given that the last 2 options say "with timestamps", I always assumed that the points in the first 2 do not have timestamps. Without timestamps, one probably looses the ordering of the points, as there is no other construct in the GPX file that guarantees an order. but we can be sure that the order is correct, otherwise it doesn't represent the same gps trace which is uploaded.
(06 Nov '18, 11:53)
iriman
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It will be just a collection of points, not a real trace. At least that's my understanding of this option.
(06 Nov '18, 12:19)
scai ♦
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