Hi, I noticed on CPAN that module Geo::Gpx (https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::Gpx) is looking for a new maintainer. I would be glad to help and can offer to look after it. I have been using that very useful module for years to manage my Gpx files after my bike rides and want to ensure it lives on.
I created a repo on Github here (https://github.com/patjoly/geo-gpx) where I tweaked it by adding a class (Geo::Gpx::Point) to store and provide methods for the 'points' array of Geo::Gpx instances. The structure of the hash for the point is the same, it's just that it is blessed into that class so that Gpx points now know what they can do. There aren't that many methods so far but I intend to build more similar to the ones I have for Garmin trackpoints another module I have on github (see https://github.com/patjoly/garmin-tcx). I just made Garmin::TCX public today to give you a glimpse of where I am coming from but it's not ready for prime time. In that repo, I have a class called Garmin::TCX::Trackpoints similar to Geo::Gpx::Points where I do distance calculation by leveraging Geo::Calc to find points closest to a point on track, split a track based on distance from a point, etc. I would like to use more of these methods for Geo::Gxp::Point and possibly Geo::GPX. I also provide methods to convert points from TCX to GPX (and vice-versa with the 'with-tcx' branch of ::Gpx) I plan on renaming that Garmin module to Geo::TCX and propose it for CPAN so it could live happily along side Geo::Gpx. Now, a bit about me. I am *not* a developer, my background is in economics and stats and I just happen to code for the fun of it, personal projects, etc. I have never posted anything on CPAN but there are enough resources out there that I can surely figure out how to do that. So what I am saying is I want to help, but I am not a professional. I was until this point happy to just fork the module but if it's no longer being maintained.... Caveating this because I do not want to give the impression that I master the ins and outs of Geo::Gpx, I don't, but as I am debugging it to modify it to my liking, I am growing a functional grasp of how it works and parse the xml in chunks, descends into the xml to parse tags as they appear, etc. That said, even though I am just a hobbyist, I have been using and creating modules/classes on and off in perl for 20 years, have experience in python, R as well. Happy to hear your thoughts/reaction. Cheers, Patrick patjo...@gmail.com
