gpxtools 0.2.1

Overview

Command line tools useful to manipulate GPX files.

Tools

Usage

Usage: command-name [options]

Options:
  -h, --help                show this help message and exit
  -i FILE, --intput=FILE    name of GPX input file, if not set stdin will be used
  -o FILE, --output=FILE    name of GPX output file, if not set stdout will be used

Tools can be easily used in pipeline:

cat input.gpx  | ./bin/gpx-fix-elevation | ./bin/gpx-cleanup | ./bin/gpx-compress > output.gpx

Installation

gpxtools requires GDAL python bindings. This packege uses GDAL library. You can build it form source or install from binary package. For more details see GDAL library homepage.

For example in Ubuntu (feisty or higher) can be installed from package:

sudo apt-get install python-gdal

gpxtools requires also lxml. To build it you can use plone.recipe.lxml buildout recipe.

$ easy_install gpxtools

[buildout]
develop = .
parts = gpxtools-script

[gpxtools-script]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs = gpxtools

$ python bootstrap.py
$ ./bin/buildout

References

• gpxtools home page

• gpxtools at pypi

• GDAL python bindings

• GDAL library

• SRTM

• lxml

• plone.recipe.lxml

• SRTM on Wikipedia

• SRTM world map

Authors & Contact

• [sargo] - Wojciech Lichota <wojciech[at]lichota.pl>

• [teo] - Matteo Gottardi <matgott[at]tin.it>

2010/02/15 0.2.1:

• mkdir import fix [samuel.adam]

2009/12/10 0.2.0:

• Support for GPX 1.0 files [teo]

• Add the <ele> tag if not present [teo]

• Documentation update [sargo]

2009/07/07 0.1.0:

• Initial release [sargo]