Bikely - What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

JensNasholm — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:51:15 +0000

It would be great if it was possible to upload GPS paths (similar to what you can do in Google Earth). I have done heaps of different rides around Sydney and have them all logged in my GPS...too much time to manually draw them, but uploading them from the GPS would be great for all!!

hmmm...probably should have submitted this one in the bugs&features topic....sorry... Keep up the good work!!

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

pigmeat — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:59:02 +0000

Agree. I have GPS logs of my Melb rides.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

RP-VTT — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:41:12 +0000

I have some gps files in Switzerland I can share with bikely community. Some of them are on my swiss site (www.guidevtt.com).

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

Jules — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:23:58 +0000

Can someone post a link to (or email me) an example of one of these files? Are they in a standardized format? I'll see what I can do.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

bryan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:37:45 +0000

You should make anything you do here be oziexplorer compatible. This tools is used by me (and thousands of other people for mapping and route following and tracking). There are thousands of maps available. See www.oziexplorer.com for more information.

It would be really good to be able to down load the route/waypoints/track from bikely to do this - even better ifits already in ozi format. I will mail some sample to jules.

bryan.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

SimonB — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:27:49 +0000

Have a look at GPX - http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp

From the web site
GPX (the GPS Exchange Format) is a light-weight XML data format for the interchange of GPS data (waypoints, routes, and tracks) between applications and Web services on the Internet.

I have used it as a way of getting tracks and waypoints from a variety of GPS units and uploading them into a web based mapping aplication.

I believe that oziexplorer can process GPX files as well.

Simon.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

DamianM — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:37:29 +0000

http://www.gpsbabel.org/ can turn Google Earth KML files into GPX too I believe. It's probably a good standard.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

RichardV — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:24:51 +0000

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com has a link to a script to export GPX files.

The script is detailed at http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx

I have hacked this script to export GPX files from http://www.bikely.com

A copy of my hacked script is at http://www.progsoc.org/~rj/bikely/gmaptogpx.js

Currently only works with maps you have edit rights to, ie you own.
Usage: Go to your bikely map.
Hit 'Create Points' button
Hit 'Complete' button
Enter value in 'Find a city', Hit 'Go'
run the javascript using the following either directly from browser url entry point or create a bookmark then run that bookmark.
javascript:(function(){var script=document.createElement('script');script.src='http://www.progsoc.org/~rj/bikely/gmaptogpx.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);})()

A sample of the output from the bikely route:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Around-the-block

creator="GMapToGPX 4.9 - http://www.elsewhere.org/GMapToGPX/"
xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd">

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To Jules,

I am interested in helping with some development work on the site.
I am particularly interested in
import/export of GPX files
adding elevation data
adding and deleting points midway through a route

I will have some time to spend on this in a couple of weeks, let me know what you think.

Richard.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

beitzel — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:13:07 +0000

Agreed, I have a garmin GPs that tracks me and altitude for my rides. I can contribute rides aound Canberra, Australia. AND I am about to ride from Berlin to Cologne in Germany, so there will be 600 odd klms of rides to contribute there too.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

Jules — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:30:27 +0000

You can now export to GPX format.

See this

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

drbolt — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:36:25 +0000

I could upload some rides if there were a tool to create GPX files from GPS routes and, of course, if it were possible to upload those GPX files as Bikely routes.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

chill888 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:38:56 +0000

I have GPS routes for 50 or so of the best climbs in the Alps and would be happy to share if you get load GPS capability.

http://will-davies.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=163

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PeterMiller — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:05:07 +0000

I have a number of gxp files as well for where I live. I also have gpx linked to photographs.

I use a product called RoboGeo (www.robogeo.com) that will read data from GPS devices and from photo folders and then add geolocations to the photos before exporting as Google Earth, Google Maps, Flickr and other formats including gpx.

I use this product because it allows me to manage large numbers of surveying photos for our local cycle campaign and see these within Google Earth. It would be really useful to be able to use this same technique with Bikely.

Photos are encoded as waypoints within gpx, for example:

25.13159
2006-08-15T12:02:13Z
DSCF0001.JPG

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

mmeiser — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:43:12 +0000

Just want to point out, not only is GPX import/export great for GPS units, it's also a great data interchange format between services like gmaps pedometer and other mapping sites. Less lock-in, more lovin'. :)

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

davidjschloss — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:42:28 +0000

Agreed with above postings. I could upload GPX routes from my rides all over the country. (I'm using Garmin's incredibly bad motionbased.com to manage most of them now). Here's another serious request for gpx upload abilities! As a conservative estimate, I could probably get 20 routes up on bikely in the time it would take me to do one by hand.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

mmeiser — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:07:03 +0000

GPX import is perhaps the number one feature request... it'll explode bikely use I'm sure.

But... there are some subtlties and complexities... Data may... may... not import as clean as can be so there may be some hidden costs in development... or maybe.. heh.. none at all. But one thing is clear... it'll be a core feature of bikely.

I think we're going to need a whole new set of standards btw... like a specia route sharing extention and standard for GPX data... like new extentions for RSS to include more GPS data. I can't say I'm responsible for... but I can atleast say I was in on the process of creating the MediaRSS spec for podcasting and videoblogging. It's slowly starting to catch on... such interoperability is the core to the success of many webservices... I BEG of you not to go the other way toward lockin' and in-operability... such walled gardens are stupid... stupid, stupid. They don't give you control... they give you less relevance, and marginalize you... only one player in a space... like say a microsoft gets to play that game.

Peace,

-Mike

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

foo — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:16:50 +0000

Is there any further update on the ability to import GPX (or other GPS data files)? Ditto most of the above. I have numerous GPS logs (in GPX format) that I could contribute. But I'm not going to draw them in manually with the bikely interface as this would be way to time consuming.

What about adding a feature to upload GPS paths

Wyl — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:31:20 +0000

Upload your GPS track (yes: track) (I use: Garmin etrex summit) to your PC (use g7towin.exe to get your track). Then: Save as... XML (also g7towin.exe).
And: upload the XML file to bikely.com and you'll immediately see your route plotted on the map where you can edit your route (don't forget to save).
The opposite is also possible:
download a route as a GPX file. Translate with g7towin.exe to Garmin track file and the upload the route to your GPS using the same application. Very easy. (I use tracks because my etrex summit has a limit of 50 waypoints per route; using tracks it's unlimited). g7towin.exe is freely available on:
http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/g7towin.htm

Wyl