On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:48 AM Beartooth <Beartooth@comcast.net> wrote:
On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:59:57 -0800, Clifford Snow wrote:

> I would suggest using QGIS. It run great under Fedora. I use Dani's copr
> repo for QGIS. (copy of repo below) It's has the latest version, 3.4
> which is very stable. QGIS will natively open GPX tracks. Then you'll
> want to get some backgrounds. I would add the QuickMapServices plugin.
> Once the plugin is installed, Go to Web, QuickMapServices and open
> settings. Under More service, select Get contributed pack. It will load
> in more than a dozen backgrounds you can use.

        What does QuickMapServices plug into?  Dnf installed QGIS, and
also mapnik, which I take to be relevant; but having had my share of
dependency hell back in the day, I'm reluctant to update anything except
via dnf. Is that going to make trouble?

It shouldn't. Plugins are fetched and I believe stored in your home directory under ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3

        There may be trouble already:

$ qgis &
[1] 12521
[btth@localhost ~]$ Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/
share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
Warning: loading of qt translation failed [/usr/share/qt4/translations/
qt_en_US]
Warning: Object::connect: No such signal
QgsMergedBookmarksTableModel::&QgsMergedBookmarksTableModel::selectItem( const
QModelIndex &index )
Warning: Object::connect:  (receiver name: 'QgsBookmarksBase')
Warning: QCss::Parser - Failed to load file  "/style.qss"
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No
such file or directory
Warning: QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/btth/.qgis2//
project_templates
loaded the Generic plugin
Warning: QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QgsPanelWidgetStack
"mWidgetStack", which already has a layout

Its possibly a conflict with python installations. I've been down that road. Now when I install from pip/pip3 I use the --user option.  

> As a personal note from an active OSM contributor, please at least
> consider uploading your tracks. Just go to osm.org and select GPX Tracks
> to upload yours. If you are willing to put some extra effort, once
> you've added your traces, please add your trail to OSM.

        I obviously need to learn the difference between a trail and a
trace. Maybe it's in the matter I read yesterday; absent-mindedness,
alas!, gets worse with age.

Use the gpx trace along with imagery to add the trail in OSM. Once the trace is uploaded, it can be used as a background to add a line feature to OSM. Using the browser based editor, iD, select the line feature to add your trail. Tag the line as highway=path + a name= if its named. A gpx trace from a consumer grade device can easily be off by 3 meters - if not more.  By using imagery along with the gpx the trail can easily be more accurate. 

Good luck,
Clifford 
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