GPS Utility This is multifunctional - conversions, editing and more - the freeware version is a bit limited but the shareware version is imho well worth the small fee.
http://www.gpsu.co.uk/index.html Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Wallace [mailto:craig...@fastmail.fm] > Sent: 28 January 2010 17:24 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks? > > On 28/01/2010 14:14, Steve Bennett wrote: > > Some comments on the ones of these I've used: > > > Solutions proposed: > > - GPSbabel: only does conversion afaik, not editing. > > GPSBabel does have various options for editing tracks, though > they are not all available in the GUI (some of them are, > click the "Filters" button). > eg to merge multiple files, just specify them all as inputs. > And there is a simplify filter. > You can also extract parts of tracks based on time etc. > Some more details here: > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.6/Advanced_Usage.html > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.6/filter_track.html > > > - 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. > > Have you tried the EditGPX plugin? It automatically converts > the tracks to a separate EditGPX layer to allow editing, and > converts back to GPX. > > > - 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. > > MapSource has some options for track editing. First, make > sure you have a fairly recent version. There are options on > the toolbar for track draw, erase, select, join, divide. And > you can simplify tracks (right click on the track, then Track > Properties -> Filter). > You can also have several MapSource windows open and copy and > paste between them. > I have found MapSource can be a bit slow at opening large GPX > files, but its usually OK once they are open. I have noticed > that if you save the track as a GDB file it loads much > quicker in MapSource. > > > Craig > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk