GPX SATMAP QUERY

[Manotea]

Hello chaps, I've got my lazy hat on...

I've been sent a SATMAP GPX file to process. The file contains a route with routepoints, with the elevation and timing info encoded in the comment field.

Nobidy knows how it got there... question is, how to turn it into a regular GPX Track for DIY Perm processing?

Your time starts... now!

[Adam]

Upload it into bikehike and then re-save it?

[fuaran]

Use GPSBabel to convert it to Universal CSV format.
Then open it in Excel (or some other spreadsheet), and shift the elevation/timing into separate columns.
Then use GPSBabel to convert back to GPX as a track.

[Manotea]

GPSBabel no likee. We're doomed.

FTR, the routepoints look like...


   <rtept lat="51.641174658371432227135833647" lon="-0.5553433164591656737604108474">
      <ele>114</ele>
      <time>2013-05-11T08:19:33Z</time>
      <name>WP36</name>
      <desc>11/05/2013, 09:14, Odo3.37km, TotTime00:08, StLine2.89km, Mov00:08, AveMov25.3kph, Now20.8kph, Ave24.7kph, Max41.8kph</desc>
      <sym>Dot</sym>
    </rtept>

My client enquired of the Satmap folks but he said they "didn't understand what the problem was".

[Feanor]

I've sent you a PM.

If you can send me the GPX file, I can probably bash it into a more useable format using notepad++ and some regexp-fu.

[Adam]

That's the completed gpx downloaded off a SatMap after someone has done that route. 

With a SatMap they disabled it communicating directly with a PC, and you have to use their SatSYNC program to upload/download files.  I've just downloaded onto my PC a stored 3 mile route I've cycled which had all that speed, time and altitude data, and tried uploading it into bikehike.  In fact for just a 3 mile route, after 5 minutes, it's still saying processing file.  On bikeroute toaster, that showed the actual route done, but also then added on a straight line to home and then a straight line to Ashford (!)

What you need is for the person who actually downloaded the gpx file originally, to export the .map file on their SatMap, which they then request the SatSYNC program to convert to a gpx file.  That then only has the actual course points with no tracking data, and that's the file you want.

[Manotea]

Thanks adam, I'll pass it on.

[Feanor]

As per PM, I've finally kicked the thing into a readable track.

About half-way round, the time values just straight-line, like he's stopped a timer or something.
The tracklog positions and distances are good, but the times are un-verifiable beyond about half-way.

R.