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Where do I find real GPS data to test with?

by waspight on 2/6/2024, 6:34:28 PM with 2 comments

I am developing tools that works with gps data on mobile devices. I would like more data to test with and I wonder if there is any good resource out there to fetch such data. It could be gpx-files, geojson or any other format.

In my experience the gps data from mobile phones are much more varying in quality than what I get from an iOS or android simulator and I would like to have more realistic data to work with. Real recordings would be the best.

by mtmail on 2/6/2024, 6:59:04 PM
Traces uploaded to OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces can be downloaded on https://planet.openstreetmap.org/gps/ The page hasn't been updated since 2013 but still, it's gigabytes of data.
(Update: 848,000 files based on the annoucement https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/04/12/bulk-gpx-track-dat...)
https://community.openstreetmap.org/ is the forum to ask where newer data is. I remember a technical discussion by the system administrators about backup page for traces so the full data must be available somewhere.