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 <stevag...@gmail.com> 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 bike trip where I collected about > 11Mb worth of gpx files, numbered 32.gpx-45.gpx and current.gpx, > spanning about 250km (tracing 1 point per second while it was on). I > want to merge them into one trace, then upload pieces of these to OSM, > and also to some other sites. I want to totally disregard the original > boundaries between traces (which I think represent either the GPS > being turned off/on, or a trace getting too long). > > 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 > > Preferably with an OSM slippy map type background. > > This sounds like a very small ask to me. I don't need it to directly > interface with the GPS, convert formats or anything. Features like > converting speeds to colour are nice, as are showing georeferenced > photos. > > Solutions proposed: > - Prune: very flakey on large numbers of traces, pretty tedious having > to work in terms of ranges, pretty dumb how it sequences traces in the > order you load them, not the order of their timestamps. The OSM > background usually dies after a few minutes. Can't export ranges > (instead you have to delete the rest of the trace). > - EasyGPS: lacks the features I need. Fast though! > - GPSu(tility): the "shareware" version is too crippled to evaluate, > plus the interface looks pretty bad. > - GPSbabel: only does conversion afaik, not editing. > - GPSman: after 15+ minutes of going around in circles on the site, I > can't even find the file to download. Or a clear statement whether it > runs on windows. Plus it looks complicated to get all the right tcl/tk > packages. > - Viking: didn't work. Maybe my tcl/tk installation is broken. > - JOSM: promising, but JOSM is always very slow on my machine, and I > can't figure out how to edit gpx traces directly, other than > converting them to data layers first. not sure if this will solve all > my needs. I do like the colour highlighting though. > - Garmin BaseCamp: may actually be able to do some of this, but > unusably slow on large amounts of data, and has some really funky > ideas about how to manage a "collection" of tracks. > - Garmin MapSource: no editing of traces that I can see. > - ExpertGPS: fast, seems to most of what I want (no useful overlays > though), but $70 is a lot to spend on a tool that provides lots of > features I can't use/don't want, like live GPS tracking > > So, maybe I'll use ExpertGPS till the evaluation period runs out, > still looking for other good solutions though. Have I missed any? > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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