I’m trying to upload a GPS trace through the OSM website, but I don’t get a response. I don’t also get an email about an error, that some others seem to get.
Waiting for the trace to appear on the traces overlay, I’m thinking if my trace didn’t upload.
It has the timestamps modified so that they are anonymous, in that only the time durations of the points are on the file. (dates replaced, times shifted)
Same problem 
I’ve just uploaded again a trace that I had previously uploaded and it worked fine.
Can you explain in a bit more detail exactly what buttons you are pressing in what order, what you would expect to see and what you actually do so, perhaps with screenshots?
I can’t reproduce this (well I didn’t alter my GPX file, too much effort):
Have a look at “My GPS Traces”
I don’t expect to see it in the traces overlay, but I could use it to edit the map with the link “Edit Map”
Maybe this wiki section is helpful to understand the visibility of GPS traces (on the map), I’m quoting:
On main page (map): GPS Tracks → Upload a trace → (Fill the fields and select a file) → Upload.
After upload, I return to the Upload GPS Trace page, without a message. There’s nothing in the queue when looked at My Traces.
Try turning off everything you can in your browser, or try a different one?
I get "Your GPX file has been uploaded and is awaiting insertion in to the database. This will usually happen within half an hour, and an email will be sent to you on completion. " after uploading an invalid file; do you see that?
I tried again without browser extensions, and I got the same.
I’m using Firefox.
I didn’t see the text mentioned.
Tried to upload using ungoogled-chromium, didn’t get the response with and without browser extensions.
I have had this happen before. My situation was downloading a GPX from Strava BUT it wasn’t from my account, it was from someone else’s. I was trying to use their file for mapping a MTB ride. The GPX downloads without certain key directional data included.
I’m not an expert but I think it has to do with the GPX coming down as a simple collection of points without “connections” showing the directional vector. When I tried uploading to OSM it wouldn’t go.
I found an online GPX repair tool that fixed it up and then I was able to upload it to OSM as per normal. Maybe try using a GPX repair tool first, then try OSM again. I don’t link to any here since I can’t recall which one I used.
Good luck!
About that, I looked for tools to verify (validate) my GPX file, and I found a method using xmllint (on Linux) to validate it with the GPX 1.1 schema.
I used it like this: xmllint --noout --schema http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd file.gpx
It didn’t detect any problems with the file though. (output: file.gpx validates)
Is it a GPS track (i.e. contains trackpoints with <trkpt> elements), rather than a route (<rtept>) or collection of waypoints (<wpt>)?
If so, can you paste it somewhere (e.g. pastebin.com) for people to have a look?
That’s it! I knew it was something within the file that shouldn’t be a problem but was. Time stamps anonymized…brain happy now…
I can upload it too. Here it is: notebin.de | Pastebin
