Only draw lines between GPS points no more than X seconds/meters apart

[tim@…]

Problem: some of the raw GPS data points imported from the OSM database are spaced so far apart that connecting them with lines is unhelpful in certain situations and messes up the display.

Example: when I'm editing a city centre map and someone uploaded data points spaced apart 60 seconds, I'll get hundreds of straight lines cutting through the entire city. This means I have to either switch off the line drawing between gps points altogether or hide all GPS points downloaded from the database. Both don't seem ideal.

It would be great if OSM had an option like

'Draw lines between GPS points only if they are less than N meters apart'

or something like that.

I'll attach an example screenshot with only a handful lines cutting across so you see what I mean. If the area being edited is a bit larger, you easily get hundreds of these lines cluttering the entire display.

[tim@…]

Looks like this was filed twice somehow, sorry. Closing as duplicate of #132.