[Routing] GPX export in openrouteservice.org

Christoph Eckert ce at christeck.de
Tue Mar 10 19:35:03 GMT 2009


Hi,

> Does someone know why openrouteservice.org uses the "track" <trk> and
> not "route" <rte>?
> Was there a reason not to take the <rte> element?

AFAIR it first was a route, but has been changed as tracks are suitable for 
more devices.

Maybe you can use gpsbabel (or Gebabbel) to convert the track into a route. 
Draft:
gpsbabel -t -i gpx -f track.gpx -x transform,rte=trk -o gpx -F route.gpx

HTH,

ce




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