Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Steve Bennett schrieb: I posted this question a few weeks ago and got some answers. two programs friends of mine or myself use: - routeconverter (GPL) can display GPS tracks on OSM maps and do some basic editing= www.routeconverter.de - TTQV (commercial, Windows) Best regards,

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-30 Thread malenki
Steve Bennett wrote: [...] In short, I need to be able to: - merge multiple traces For this I optimized a small script found on this list (or from talk-de) which appends all tracks invoked with $ scriptname [expression] (e.g. scriptname 2010-01-[12]*gpx - appends all gpx-files from January

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-30 Thread malenki
Craig Wallace wrote: On 29/01/2010 03:51, Steve Bennett wrote: GPSBabel does have a radius filter, so you include or exclude points within a distance of a location. It seems it only works on waypoints, but you can transform tracks to waypoints, and back again. There's an example on this page:

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-30 Thread Rob
Steve Bennett wrote: Yeah, that's with the EditGPX plugin. I don't get how it's supposed to work. The traces aren't clickable, and I don't understand what the GPXedit layer is supposed to do (distinct from the layers for the individual traces). Couldn't find any doco either. If you look on

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-29 Thread Craig Wallace
On 29/01/2010 03:51, Steve Bennett wrote: Ah, so it does. It makes it very easy to merge multiple tracks, split them by day, and simplify. So maybe I'll have to get used to pre-processing like this. Maybe I should request a privacy filter feature that automatically deletes any points within a

[OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Steve Bennett
I posted this question a few weeks ago and got some answers. I've been using Prune until now, but it's really not satisfactory. I've also tried out a couple of the other tools suggested, and they're pretty bad too. Here's my basic use case: I've just come back from a 4 day bike trip where I

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Craig Wallace
On 28/01/2010 14:14, Steve Bennett wrote: Some comments on the ones of these I've used: Solutions proposed: - GPSbabel: only does conversion afaik, not editing. GPSBabel does have various options for editing tracks, though they are not all available in the GUI (some of them are, click the

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Steven Johnson
Had you considered QGIS? QGIS has the ability to import/export GPX so you could conceivably import into QGIS, do your editing, and export the newly tailored traces. SEJ Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans. -Empedocles On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:14, Steve Bennett

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Mike Harris
] Sent: 28 January 2010 17:24 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks? On 28/01/2010 14:14, Steve Bennett wrote: Some comments on the ones of these I've used: Solutions proposed: - GPSbabel: only does conversion afaik, not editing

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: - Prune: I'm in the same boat, and this is what I continue to use (on Ubuntu - so Windows-only options are excluded for me). very flakey on large numbers of traces, pretty tedious having to work in terms of ranges,

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread David Fawcett
The previously mentioned Quantum GIS runs on Ubuntu. http://qgis.org/en/download/current-software.html It is an OpenSource desktop GIS that is improving both in features and quality very rapidly. David. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 29,

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Randy
Steve Bennett wrote: I posted this question a few weeks ago and got some answers. I've been using Prune until now, but it's really not satisfactory. I've also tried out a couple of the other tools suggested, and they're pretty bad too. Here's my basic use case: I've just come back from a 4 day

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Steve Bennett wrote: In short, I need to be able to: - merge multiple traces - be able to visually select pieces of a trace to either delete (for privacy/tidiness) or export - simplify a trace down to a much smaller number using some smart algorithm [..] - Viking: didn't work. Maybe my

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: GPSBabel does have various options for editing tracks, though they are not all available in the GUI (some of them are, click the Filters button). eg to merge multiple files, just specify them all as inputs. And there is

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

2010-01-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Mike Harris mik...@googlemail.com wrote: GPS Utility This is multifunctional - conversions, editing and more - the freeware version is a bit limited but the shareware version is imho well worth the small fee. http://www.gpsu.co.uk/index.html I mentioned