{"id":3709,"date":"2008-06-28T12:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2008-06-28T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:30:28","slug":"bbtrackerwpt-created-gpx-files-of-named-waypoints-from-bbtracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/28\/bbtrackerwpt-created-gpx-files-of-named-waypoints-from-bbtracker\/","title":{"rendered":"bbtrackerwpt – create GPX files of named waypoints from bbtracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like bbtracker<\/a> -it’s a very simple GPS track logger for the Blackberry<\/a>. It has (at least, at the current version) one problem – you can’t create waypoints in the way that most GPS applications would expect. You can, however, name trackpoints – so I wrote a little perl script to extract all the named trackpoints from an exported GPX files, and save them as waypoints.<\/p>\n

Download bbtrackerwpt – converts named trackpoints from bbtracker GPX into waypoints<\/a>. You’ll need XML::Simple<\/a> for this to work.<\/p>\n

I imagine this script has a limited audience, and quite likely a limited lifetime. The author of bbtracker has said they’d provide waypoint support in the next version. You know me and patience, though …<\/p>\n

If I remembered more XSLT, I’d have done this the proper way. As is, I create XML using Perl print<\/code> statements. I’m probably okay, as the name field is the only piece of free-form text, and I do some rudimentary escaping of characters that XML doesn’t like. The output seems to validate<\/a>, which is more than the GPX<\/a> that bbtracker produces does. The length of your GPS track may vary \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like bbtracker -it’s a very simple GPS track logger for the Blackberry. It has (at least, at the current version) one problem – you can’t create waypoints in the way that most GPS applications would expect. You can, however, name trackpoints – so I wrote a little perl script to extract all the named […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[323,454,506,187,1287,1320],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-blackberry","tag-gps","tag-gpx","tag-perl","tag-xml","tag-xslt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-XP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}