Category Archives: GPS

A complete and utter starter Python script

Posted on 2011-01-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A friend said that it was the duty of a computer scientist to learn a new computer language a year and asked me to introduce him to Python. Ignoring the fact that he’ll probably outstrip my two-year-old Python abilities in … Continue reading →

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Hmm, not so sure about last post

Posted on 2011-01-20 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Already come a cropper, hoist by my own petard, etc etc I put a warning in my code that its a hack and I’ve already seen its limitation. Basically, I really need to re-write it getting to grips with the … Continue reading →

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Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date

Posted on 2011-01-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

[LATER EDIT: please don’t use this script – see here for an improved version] At last, I’m posting here what I think to be a useful script. It is, however, more of a hack since for brevities sake and lack … Continue reading →

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My Method of collecting GPS tracks (to improve – this post and the method)

Posted on 2011-01-06 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Answering an email today from William Heath about how to collect GPS data, I thought it a good idea to once and for all, write out what I do, as much for my own reference as for anyone else who … Continue reading →

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Great Perl Script for GPX files and OpenStreetMap

Posted on 2010-06-01 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Two of my favourite things: free and open software that people work on and share with us all and the map that everyone can contribute to have been bought together by Thomas Fischer. He has written and published a Perl … Continue reading →

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