Tag Archives: gpx

Garmin Forerunner to GPX with heartrate as elevation (altitude)

It seems like I’ve been working on this for ages but I finally managed to get some kind of output from the Garmin Forerunner 301 that Miles Chalcraft kindly leant me. Grab GarminTools from here. Plug in the Forerunner and … Continue reading

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A new category for filtering ‘rogue’ trackpoints?

Having just downloaded our GPSs for this period, I was playing around with looking at the GPX tracks in Qgis and something struck me. What you can see here is that some trackpoints are clearly ‘wrong’ or ‘inaccurate’ or just … Continue reading

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What GPS / GPX visualisation software to use in Linux

OK, so you’ve chosen a GPS, based on the last post and you’ve taken a walk with it and are itching to look at what you’ve done. There are so many sites now offering advice, mostly for Windoze of course … Continue reading

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Hmm, not so sure about last post

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

[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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