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To avoid having to handle large numbers of files, one file per
contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
<trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
but is still tedious manual work.
Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
program myself?
Hans-Georg
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:19:23 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
> To avoid having to handle large numbers of files, one file per
> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
> but is still tedious manual work.
>
> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
> program myself?
>
> Hans-Georg
> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
> but is still tedious manual work.
>
> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
> program myself?
>
> Hans-Georg
One thought: a batch file (if you're in Windows) that uses a foreach
loop to type each file into a destination file, using ">>" to append the
data instead of overwriting it.
If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
have worked well for this.
--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:58:56 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:19:23 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>> To avoid having to handle large numbers of files, one file per
>> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
>> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
>> but is still tedious manual work.
>>
>> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
>> program myself?
>> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
>> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
>> but is still tedious manual work.
>>
>> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
>> program myself?
>One thought: a batch file (if you're in Windows) that uses a foreach
>loop to type each file into a destination file, using ">>" to append the
>data instead of overwriting it.
>If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
>them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
>That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
>I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
>have worked well for this.
>If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
>them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
>That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
>I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
>have worked well for this.
Unfortunately it's not quite so simple. Each exported GPX file
from My Tracks contains only one <trk>...</trk> element, but it
is long and contains all of the actual trackpoints with their
data.
I see though that it would be fairly easy to write a script for
this purpose, probably in JavaScript. I'll write and publish it,
as soon as I find an hour to spare.
Hans-Georg
Hi,
ExpertGPS is a great tool for track work. The author was one of the main
persons starting the "GPX" file format and ExpertGPS's native format is
"GPX".
http://expertgps.com/
It is $$$$ but you get topo maps and satellite imagery from the terra server
(Terra server may have had it's name changed.)
A free version is offered as EasyGPX, but I have not looked at it's features
for a long time.
http://www.easygps.com/default.asp
Also GPSBabel may do the job. (Free but perhaps a bit hard to use)
http://www.gpsbabel.org/news/20100620.html
SHF
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:58:56 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:19:23 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>>> To avoid having to handle large numbers of files, one file per
>>> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
>>> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
>>> but is still tedious manual work.
>>> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
>>> program myself?
>>> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
>>> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
>>> but is still tedious manual work.
>>> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
>>> program myself?
>>One thought: a batch file (if you're in Windows) that uses a foreach
>>loop to type each file into a destination file, using ">>" to append the
>>data instead of overwriting it.
>>If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
>>them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
>>That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
>>I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
>>have worked well for this.
>>loop to type each file into a destination file, using ">>" to append the
>>data instead of overwriting it.
>>If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
>>them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
>>That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
>>I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
>>have worked well for this.
Wait for it... ANY mention of "AWK" is stomped on by the P-Counter only
enabled brains of the perl users.
They just don't get it.
Send me a E-main at mailto:a_nani_mouse@mindspring.com and I can supply all
of AWK including source and DOC's to you.
> Unfortunately it's not quite so simple. Each exported GPX file
> from My Tracks contains only one <trk>...</trk> element, but it
> is long and contains all of the actual trackpoints with their
> data.
> I see though that it would be fairly easy to write a script for
> this purpose, probably in JavaScript. I'll write and publish it,
> as soon as I find an hour to spare.
> Hans-Georg
> from My Tracks contains only one <trk>...</trk> element, but it
> is long and contains all of the actual trackpoints with their
> data.
> I see though that it would be fairly easy to write a script for
> this purpose, probably in JavaScript. I'll write and publish it,
> as soon as I find an hour to spare.
> Hans-Georg
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:09:42 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:58:56 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:19:23 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>
>>> To avoid having to handle large numbers of files, one file per
>>> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
>>> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
>>> but is still tedious manual work.
>>>
>>> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
>>> program myself?
>>> contiguous track, as they come from My Tracks, I've copied the
>>> <trk>...</trk> elements together into one file. Works nicely,
>>> but is still tedious manual work.
>>>
>>> Any idea on how to do this automatically, short of writing a
>>> program myself?
>
>>One thought: a batch file (if you're in Windows) that uses a foreach
>>loop to type each file into a destination file, using ">>" to append the
>>data instead of overwriting it.
>>If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
>>them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
>>That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
>>I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
>>have worked well for this.
>>loop to type each file into a destination file, using ">>" to append the
>>data instead of overwriting it.
>>If the <trk> elements are not alone in the file, use find to isolate
>>them. This won't work if the tracks occupy several lines.
>>That's still writing a program, but with luck it'll be short and sweet.
>>I used to have a version of awk in Windows, years ago. I bet that would
>>have worked well for this.
>
> Unfortunately it's not quite so simple. Each exported GPX file
> from My Tracks contains only one <trk>...</trk> element, but it
> is long and contains all of the actual trackpoints with their
> data.
> Unfortunately it's not quite so simple. Each exported GPX file
> from My Tracks contains only one <trk>...</trk> element, but it
> is long and contains all of the actual trackpoints with their
> data.
I don't know the formats here (that's surely obvious), but I still think
awk would work. I'm probably wrong, but since I'm not aware of any awk
implementation in Windows these days, I'm safe from discovery...
But see below.
> I see though that it would be fairly easy to write a script for
> this purpose, probably in JavaScript. I'll write and publish it,
> as soon as I find an hour to spare.
>
> Hans-Georg
> this purpose, probably in JavaScript. I'll write and publish it,
> as soon as I find an hour to spare.
>
> Hans-Georg
Looks like you'll be having some fun soon :-)
Meantime, I got curious and looked here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK#AWK_versions_and_implementations
There's a comment that Perl is inspired by awk, and mention of a program
tawk that runs under Windows, inter alia.
--
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