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Hello,

I’m a long time user of OSM but I haven’t contributed yet. I am very interested in the program and I want to use it well. I really like it a lot but sometimes there are features I don’t really know how to use and that’s why I’m here !

I am working for a public transport company and we need to track bikes from a bike sharing system. These are ebikes spread out in the city. I would like to record these bikes locations along with the trace i’ll be doing while walking in the city and searching for the bikes using the bike app. Basically I need to create points of interests / waypoints in which I have to include some informations like the bike number and the battery level. Of course using OSM I can also get the exact GPS location for each bike.

Today I made a test, creating a GPX file and creating some random POI while walking in the neighborhood. The thing is, it seems tricky to include both the trace (GPX) and the POI together. I would like to have a file including both things, I think there must be a way but I’m not sure how exactly.

If anyone has a clue on how to do it easily that would be greatly appreciated. I would just like to walk, see a bike, register easily the bike informations and end up with a unique file including it all, if possible.

Thanks a lot !

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If I onderstand you correctly, you want to do a survey of assets. OpenStreetMap is not (all) you should be using.
There are dedicated tools for that, also open source. I found http://geoodk.com/ for you, didn’t delve into it yet.
Is this something you could use?

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I don’t know about this one. I’m going to look into it.

Basically, yeah, I have to register points and add information manually (bike number and battery status). Actually the gpx trace is not even important.

Mostly, a unique folder containing all points made during a session would be great.

Sorry I’m a newbie with all of this :slight_smile:

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If you have e.g. a Garmin GPS device, it will record your trace. It also has the possibility to create waypoints. You can add any text as description of a waypoint. So that could be the bike number and battery status.
OsmAnd, a smartphone application, has similar capabilities.

The data should never be sent to the OSM servers, as it does not really belong in that database.

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For Android, there are OSMTracker or OsmAnd. Not sure there’s any for iPhone.

I haven’t done it yet, but OSMTracker lets you change the button layout so that you can simply click on one of its icons to add a specific type of POI.

Once back at the base, simply copy the GPX + JPG/3GP files onto your computer, and open the GPX in JOSM to see the track + pics/sound.

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I see OSMTracker is a mapping tool, and mapping for OSM is not what zen411 is doing.