[ gpsdrive ] .gpx conversion

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Donnerstag 02 Oktober 2008 schrieb Hamish:
> Hamish:
> > > > Options -> Import -> GPX Route?
>
> Chris:
> > > Need to upgrade if this is available. Not available on pre4
>
> Guenther:
> > please take care, tracks and routes are different things and handled in
> > a different way!
> > a track is a recorded path that someone already has followed. in gpx
> > this is represented by <trk> and <trkpt> elements.
> > tracks can only be recorded and viewed in gpsdrive.
> > a route is a path that you want to go, represented by important corner
> > marks, in gpx as <rte> and <rtept>. in gpsdrive routes can created,
> > edited and viewed.
> >
> > some programs seem to export routes as gpx tracks, which is
> > not gpx standard.
>
> I would add that with respect to Garmin receivers (maybe others too) that
> routes are defined a list of waypoint names in some given order.
> Expansion of routes into a poly-line* of waypoint coordinates is done on
> a second pass.   [*] and calculation of leg distance and compass course.
>
points are points, routes are routes, tracks are tracks.
if an export to proper gpx is not possible, garmin has to be told about that.
maybe gpsbabel can do the conversion, I don't know.
it is not the goal of gpsdrive to provide a full featured gis solution.
I'm not willing to code exceptions for peculiarities of other software 
vendors. today it is garmin, tomorrow hundreds of others...


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