[OSM-newbies] merging GPX files

Francis Augusto Medeiros francis at mgate.com.br
Wed Mar 14 09:04:42 GMT 2007


Hello Nick,

I think GPS Babel is pretty intuitive if all you want to do is file  
conversion. However, if you want to merge multiple files at once, it  
seemed to me it's not very clear how to do it. On the command line,  
it seemed to me that you have to enter each file name individually -  
it would be cool if you could just add a wildcard.

Cheers,

Francis


On 14 de mar de 2007, at 05:34, Nick Black wrote:

> Hi Francis,
>
> I find the version of GPS Babel I have on my Mac is pretty intuitive.
> Could you make a note of some of the problems you're having.  Its
> great to be able to give feedback to the GPS babel developers, and
> there could be something odd thats going on with the version you have.
>
> Nick
>
> On 3/14/07, John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net> wrote:
>> Your track files don't have timestamps. OSM requires that they do, I
>> think that this was originally put in as a method to make sure that
>> people really have actually gone out with their GPS and haven't
>> created a track file by drawing on top of a map or something like
>> that. I believe there's some scripts that you can get to artificially
>> add time stamps, hopefully someone else on the list can remember
>> these. If not I'll have a look through the mailing list archives for
>> it. Obviously for the future it might be good if you can get GPS
>> Track to add them itself to save you the bother.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 14 Mar 2007, at 00:49, Francis Augusto Medeiros wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On 13 de mar de 2007, at 21:12, John McKerrell wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 13 Mar 2007, at 22:50, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 23:16 schrieb Francis Augusto  
>> Medeiros:
>> >>>
>> >>>> My question: how can I merge these logs into a big log? Is it
>> >>>> possible?
>> >>>
>> >>> Maybe http://www.gpsbabel.org can do it. If you are on Linux  
>> and you
>> >>> prefer a GUI, maybe http://gebabbel.sourceforge.net is useful.
>> >>>
>> >>>> That would save me much trouble because when I have to
>> >>>> edit, I could just load a single file and when I get more  
>> logs I'd
>> >>>> merge it to the big log.
>> >>>
>> >>> in JOSM you can open multiple files at once. Try shift- 
>> clicking on
>> >>> the
>> >>> files to open in the file selector dialog.
>> >>
>> >> Probably also worth working out why OSM's not accepting the  
>> files in
>> >> the first place, could you make one available on a website  
>> somewhere,
>> >> or perhaps send me a small one directly? You'll probably find that
>> >> gpsbabel can convert them from your current format to a format  
>> that
>> >> OSM would accept though.
>> >
>> > Sending you one in private...
>> >
>> >>
>> >> FWIW I love Mobitrack Pro for my J2ME needs but unfortunately it's
>> >> not free, also this one has been mentioned recently: http://
>> >> www.substanceofcode.com/software/mobile-trail-explorer/ - the  
>> one you
>> >> mention looks interesting though, I might try it out myself.
>> >
>> > This one (GPS Track) is really great!! I do like it a lot!
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Francis
>> >
>> >
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