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Using Spatialite to store and represent our GPX data

Background A quick bit of background. As people who read this blog know, we have recorded every journey we make, every day, with a GPS since 2003 (Dan) and 2007 (Sophia). As you can imagine, this practice has evolved technologically … Continue reading

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

Of course, just as I predicted, Peter beat me to it and seemed to learn as much about Python as me in a few days whereas its taken me a few years to get this far (sigh). Last night, as … 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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