Re: GPSMAP 60Cx or 76Cx?



Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

+ kc <codewarrior@xxxxxxxx>:

| When you get it back to the PC, MapSource does become a problem. I
| have a 7 Meg track which took 17 hours to gather. It takes MapSource
| over 15 minutes to open this track on my 2GHz laptop.

Oooh. Is the data format of these tracklogs known to the public, so
one could write one's own parser? Or must we wait for someone to
reverse engineer it?

--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
The format is XML. I wrote a quick parser in perl and converted it to
something Excel could analyze in less time than it took for MapSource
to open the file! You can also open it in a text editor. The file
suffix on a pc is .gpx.

I guess I could convert it to some other format using gpsbabel but
I've never been too lucky with that tool. :-(
.



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