[ gpsdrive ] conversion of tracks saved by gpsdrive (incremental.sav) to GPX?

[Kim Hawtin]

Hi Gernot,

Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany) wrote:
> On Donnerstag 10 Januar 2008, Gernot Hillier wrote:
>> Hi there!
>>
>> If you run gpsdrive 2.10pre4 w/o MySQL supports, it seems to write
>> recorded tracks to a file called incremental.sav.
>>
>> Now I'm looking for some tool to convert incremental.sav to a batch of
>> GPX files I can then upload to OpenStreetmap - perhaps one per day or
>> thelike. Also a simple converter would help already.
> 
> Conversion and working with tracks and OSM .... my Answer seem to always be 
> osmtrackfilter ;-)
> 
>> It seems the "gpsdrive" and "gpsdrivetrack" filters of gpsbabel don't
>> work correctly for incremental.sav, at least with gpsbabel 1.3.3 (and
>> the release notes for 1.3.4 don't tell anything about improvements here).

i had this same problem, i posted on the osm talk-au list and they
recommended; gpsdrive2gpx.pl

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Making_Tracks_with_Homebrew-ware

i've been using it ever since. i then upload those .gpx files to the osm

> I don't know about this sorry.
> 
>> So I'm currently trying to write a style sheet for the xcsv filter of
>> gpsbabel - but perhaps already has done this or provided another tool to
>> do that?
>>
>> Any hint is greatly appreciated.
> 
> osmtrackfilter can be found at
> 	svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/osmtrackfilter/...
> or in the debian package openstreetmap-utils in the gpsdrive repository.

regards,

Kim
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