Write GPX

MoveApps

Github repository: github.com/movestore/write-GPX

Description

This App takes movement data and exports all locations as a standard downloadble .gpx file that can be viewed and used in common GIS and GPS tools like QGIS, GPX viewers, navigation devices Garmin, Strava, and mapping services.

Documentation

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. GPX is being used by hundreds of software programs and Web services for GPS data exchange, mapping, and geocaching.(more information: http://www.topografix.com )

This App exports the location data as GPX waypoints (contains, for each point, the coordinates, timestamp, individual ID, and all additional attributes supported via GPX extensions if they are listed in the default XML name schema under http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/)

Application scope

Generality of App usability

This App was developed for any taxonomic group.

Required data properties

The App should work for any kind of (location) data.

Input data

move2::move2_loc

Output data

move2::move2_loc

Artefacts

GPX_data.gpx: GPX file of your input data with major elements "longitude", "latitude", "time" and "name" and additional data attributes as "extensions".

Settings

This App has no user-configurable settings.

Changes in output data

The input data remains unchanged.

Most common errors

Null or error handling:

CRS / GPX errors: If CRS transformation or GPX writing fails, the error can be found in the logs file, no GPX file is created, and the App returns the unmodified input data.