Hi, I have written a program for my pocket pc to plot my position and save the route I've taken as a <rte> in gpx format. The output files from the program...
Hello, Monday, March 3, 2003, 4:43:35 AM, Andrew wrote: a> Hi, a> I have written a program for my pocket pc to plot my position and a> save the route I've...
Andrew, Which version of GPS Utility are you using? I used the current standard version of GPSU (4.04.7) to open your extracted file OK. If you have a file...
Hi, First of all thanks for the support on this! I have attached a file (Route.gpx) which I have tried opening in GPS Utility 4.04.7. I am not sure whether...
Thanks for your files. The problem is that default length for Waypoint ID name in GPSU is set to 6 characters and GPSU is not changing this default setting on ...
GPXchange.com is in development. It will serve as a central database for authors to make their GPX data available on a free or commercial basis. The rapid...
The announcement of GPXchange motivates me catch-up on GPX development. Back in April 2002, I commented here (message 256) on how the examples I'd seen "lack...
Is there any way to upload driving directions from an internet source into expertgps? I used to be able to with mapblast but modifications to the website has...
You could try MapsOnUs (www.mapsonus.com) and GPS Utility (www.gpsu.co.uk). GPSU will read html files produced by MapsOnUs and export the data as a GPX...
Hi all, I have to develop a GPS tracking application for industry vehicles. What I want to do is: 1. read NMEA data from the GPS devices, 2. read other data...
Here is an article I've written in response to the introduction of GPXchange.com. Your comments are welcome. ... Finding your way is getting a little easier,...
Allow me to introduce myself. I have a web site, http://navaid.com/, where I allow end users to generate aviation databases for two Palm OS programs used for...
Paul Tomblin
ptomblin@...
Mar 31, 2003 1:58 am
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... Parsing GPX files with XML::Twig isn't too terrible at all. It delivers a callback with members that can be iterated through pretty easily. If I...
How much room does your average GPS have for extra text? My CoPilot and GPSPilot databases give all sorts of extra information for the waypoint, like runway...
Hello Paul, Monday, March 31, 2003, 8:24:12 PM, you wrote: P> How much room does your average GPS have for extra text? My CoPilot and P> GPSPilot databases...
... Thanks to Brian Scearce, I now have a copy of gpsbabel. I think, since I already know the format of CoPilot and GPSPilot (and I think FlyByNav, which I...
... While I appreciate Brian's hand, GPSBabel shouldn't be hard to get. It's free and it's open. http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net ... If the code comes with a...
... What I mean is that Brian told me about it. I'd never heard of it before. ... SAXCount counted the elements. That tells me that it's valid XML, it ...
I've got a preliminary cut of my "GPX Aviation Waypoint Generator" up at http://navaid.com/GPX/ Go there and choose the area of the world and the types of...
... I pulled a handful into GPSBabel and eyeballed the output by hand. It looks OK to me. You might want to set the mime type on the actual file being output...
... Unfortunately it's whatever apache on the hosting company sets by default for gpx file. I don't know how to override that in .htaccess. -- Paul Tomblin...
... I figured out how to do that in the .htaccess file. Now it's application/octet-stream, so it gets saved. I've also got a logo and fixed the donation page...
... You really want it to be something that triggers a specific application to be launched that knows how to handle it. Look at the geocaching stuff for an...
... Is there a common mime type for GPX files? -- Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@...>, not speaking for anybody "Leave the beaten track occasionally, and dive...
If you just want to send a GPX file down from a web server, you should serve it as text/xml. So, not being familiar with htaccess that well, I would guess...
... No, when I do that, my browser displays as text without the xml tags. I think it's trying to interpret it as XML. -- Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@...>,...
GPX is XML. So text/xml is a valid mime-type. You can't tell the browser what application to use for a file from the web server-- you can only tell the...
... But if you just let it default to application/binary (or whatever the original suggestion was) there's no way for the browser to associate the data with an...
... Until we have a browser plug-in that handles that specific mime type, this may be the best approach. The browser will then use the file extension to look...
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