PBP - New compressed GPX tracks

[EdinburghFixed]

Hi all,

Too late for most, no doubt, but maybe useful for some.

I managed to find a way to compress the GPX tracks from BikeRouteToaster (the complete "one out, one back" tracks) so that they were more pleasant for my Edge to handle. As it was, with about 11,000 points for 1200km I couldn't get it to load the Saved Routes page...

Anyway, these two sacrifice a bit of accuracy (it only guarantees the track will be within 15m of the original track, whereas the accuracy of my GPS is ~5m at best) for useability - down to under a third of the track points.

Out and Return, if they're of any use to anyone.

[Andrew]

Thanks, I may use. Data space is tight on the 305 (mine overwrites after around 600km ish ish ish!) so any saving is useful.

Do you think I could strip the elevation and time tags out with buggering it up?

[EdinburghFixed]

I don't see why not, but only because if I wrote an XML parser for GPS it would only require the x,y co-ordinates.

Download these and try them?

http://mccraw.co.uk/upload/out-stripped.gpx

http://mccraw.co.uk/upload/return-stripped.gpx

[Andrew]

Looks good, certainly lighter. I get an 'unknown track protocol' error sending them to my 305  (using gpsbabel) but they load ok to mapmyride/toaster etc. I'll have a play with the raw files later, maybe just a matter of tweaking/editing the header data.