... This is a really old thread, but I'd be interested, if you have time, to see what you'd like in an interactive GPX editor. I work for Adobe and wrote a GPX...
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Lisa Harper
lisah2u
Dec 24, 2008 6:06 pm
The best gpx editor I've ever used was topofusion (windows). Besides adding and deleting points, simplifying, merging and splitting -- it's incredibly handy to...
1921
Michael A. Peters
funkyres
Dec 24, 2008 7:01 pm
... Just be thankful you aren't like me - even more limited as I use Linux exclusively :D I'm working on a php solution that will be platform independent, but ...
1922
Simon Slavin
simonslavin
Dec 24, 2008 7:36 pm
... Garmin's "Road Trip" for the Mac is usable without any Garmin devices, and imports and exports GPX files just fine. If you don't have a Garmin device than...
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digitalbackcountry
digitalbackc...
Dec 24, 2008 8:54 pm
That's one of the reasons I want to build it on Adobe AIR. One, I can show it off as part of my day job for Adobe, but AIR also runs on Mac/Win/Linux. So I...
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paul
paul_hermans
Dec 26, 2008 1:41 pm
I haven't worked long enough with GPX Editor to say what I like or not. I'm rather looking for following functionality. a) correcting a path If I'm recording...
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Lisa Harper
lisah2u
Dec 29, 2008 3:13 am
... and hugely.... cutting a track and deleting a segment. I don't know how many times I've screwed up and left the GPS on recording a long car trip home.... ...
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inhk8357
Dec 29, 2008 2:19 pm
Hi I can find that the frequency of recording track data is not constant It takes from 1sec to 40sec Please let me know the reason. thank you...
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Simon Slavin
simonslavin
Dec 29, 2008 4:44 pm
... Different devices record track data at different intervals. For instance, my Garmin GPSmap can be set to record a new point only when I've moved a certain...
1928
gregmtnbike
Jan 5, 2009 5:15 am
To take this one step further if you click (select) a point in the text version that point should be highlighted on the map, and visa versa. I'd also like to...
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Dan Foster
topografix
Jan 5, 2009 6:08 pm
Hello, I have a need to create compressed GPX files, using the Zip compression/decompression algorithm. This would be identical to how the KML format has a...
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Martin
martinp1313
Jan 5, 2009 6:54 pm
I'd vote .gpz to continue the .kml->.kmz format. But either of the other two make sense too. ... From: Dan Foster <egroups@...> Subject: [gpsxml]...
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Hal Mueller
halmuellermg
Jan 5, 2009 6:58 pm
For Mac OS X, the final dot/extension will define the type. So ".gpx.zip"; is a bad choice because it will be treated as a straight zip file. Hal...
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Robert Lipe
robertlipe
Jan 5, 2009 7:21 pm
... Not to distract, but KMZ is actually a bit more than that; it's an archive and thus can include icons, html and other data that can be referenced from the...
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Dan Foster
topografix
Jan 5, 2009 8:04 pm
Hello, ... My implementation plan was to mimic KMZ as much as possible - the program that opened the compressed GPX archive would extract data from any and all...
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Jeremy Irish
groundspeak
Jan 5, 2009 9:10 pm
Here's another vote for GPZ. It isn't an overused file extension so it seems like a good candidate. It is also consistent to kmz as Dan mentioned already. We...
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Simon Slavin
simonslavin
Jan 5, 2009 9:17 pm
... Your file is a .zip file. The extension should be .zip. If you want to use .gpx before that, which would be the third of your options, that's fine. ... ...
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Michael A. Peters
funkyres
Jan 5, 2009 9:46 pm
... But that's exactly what it is - a zip archive. MacOS X is doing the right thing by treating it that way. Once you decompress it Mac OS X should treat it as...
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Michael A. Peters
funkyres
Jan 5, 2009 9:47 pm
... Exactly. Make up a new extension and people's browsers will ask them what they want to do with the file. Leave it as .zip and the server will send the...
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Paul Tomblin
canoe
Jan 5, 2009 9:47 pm
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Simon Slavin ... And let's not forget that at least some versions of IE ignore the ContentType returned by the web server and...
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Michael A. Peters
funkyres
Jan 5, 2009 9:47 pm
... That's the best choice. It means that you don't need to define new mime types - servers etc. already know what a .zip extension means....
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Michael A. Peters
funkyres
Jan 6, 2009 1:41 am
... There are several different compression methods - zip, gzip, bzip2, plus several others. It really does not make sense to pick just one and make a new...
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Simon Thwaites
simon_thwaites
Jan 7, 2009 2:27 pm
My vote is for gpx.compressionext mainly using gpx.gz .gz is meant for single file compression, not multiple file archives, also applications automatically...
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pixelk
Jan 7, 2009 2:27 pm
I thought until today that it was 1.1, as shown by http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp But a user of my GPX editor program, just pointed me at ...
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Dan Foster
topografix
Jan 7, 2009 2:30 pm
Hello, ... It was put up there to hold the one or two changes that people had requested after 1.1 came out, so that they'd be included in any future 1.2...
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Paul Tomblin
canoe
Jan 7, 2009 2:41 pm
... Mostly I think you put it up because I wanted magnetic declination to be +/- 180 degrees instead of 0-360, since +/- 180 is the standard. -- Parks sat so...
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Sunburned Surveyor
sunburned.su...
Jan 7, 2009 3:15 pm
I've released a very simple Java library that allows the parsing of GPX files. I've used the library to add support for import and export of GPX entities in...
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h_zwakenberg
Jan 27, 2009 12:30 pm
Hi Group, currently I'm in a software project that would benefit from the GPX file format - or from one of its competing formats. I noticed there are multiple...
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Dan Foster
topografix
Jan 27, 2009 12:53 pm
Hello, ... To what formats would you like us to compare GPX? -- Dan Foster...
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Michael A. Peters
funkyres
Jan 27, 2009 5:58 pm
... GPX is an open standard specifically designed for exchange of data, you certainly should add least read/write the format regardless of what you use...
