[Openstreetmap] Re: New osm-editor with empty-track bug removed and auto-centring

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Tue Nov 1 15:21:13 GMT 2005


[Nick]
> Sorry about the confusion. "OSM GPX" is *not* the new 0.2 "osm" format XML. 
> Rather, it is GPX with every segment inside its own <trk> tag i.e.
>
> <trk>
> <trkseg>
> ....
> </trkseg>
> </trk>
> <trk>
> <trkseg>
> ....

This seem to be the format exported by gpsbabel when I dump the tracks
from my garmin GPS.  Good to hear that this format is supported.

> Previously osmeditor wrote out a version of GPX with only one trk tag in the 
> whole file i.e.
>
> <trk>
> <trkseg>
> ...
> </trkseg>
> <trkseg>
> ....
> </trkseg>
> <trkseg>
> ...
>
> etc.
> I have now removed support for the second (original) version.

Are there any systems generating this format?  If it is, it might be
best to support both variants. :)





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