Bill Chadwick wrote: > I'd be the first to admit that wheresthepath is many month's worth of > hobby-style, write-once, author-only-read code! > Easy for code to grow organically if there is one author... and lots of interesting features to implement ;-) > I think that the ability to nest FeatureCollections would be a useful > addition to GeoJson. > > I updated the Gpx2GeoJson converter last night to properly load > escaped parameterised GPX url's like this > only way to do it.. too many urls just dont work otherwise. > original url > > > http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/main/walks/index.cfm?fsa=dspWalkGPSDownload&w_id=1&type=pathsection > > Gpx2GeoJson request (simply a standard 'escape' of the original url). > > > http://gpx2geojson.appspot.com/?gpxurl=http%3A//www.southwestcoastpath.com/main/walks/index.cfm%3Ffsa%3DdspWalkGPSDownload%26w_id%3D1%26type%3Dpathsection&mime=text/plain > > Once a GPX file is cached up on an Appspot server, getting the GeoJson > is pretty snappy. > Ahh when I do this kind of thing... I just reflect the puppy back instead of caching anything its a tool for making the thing not storing it... > Also from last night, on wheresthepath, after pressing 'Import' for an > http: url in the GPX Text Area, the necessary 'escaped' url parameter > to use as a wheresthepath url parameter is displayed for the user to > copy > > Yes KML/GML could be imported too. Plenty more UI tweaks are possible. > I am not looking to build a community GPS repository. > With my GeoXml class I targetted versaitility from the user perspective so various formats are somewhat seemless.... but since I havent convinced my self of true GeoJSON.. (and I am encoding the polylines ) the results are useful only for my parser.... > And yes the site does work very well in Chrome, especially in a thin > frame from a saved application shortcut but no Google Earth Plugin for > Chrome yet :( > > Hypertext Applications live again... well almost.
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