![]() My practice in routemaster is to associate labels internally with points along a route, but to print them out identified by their geographic locations. A right turn in one direction is a left turn in the other. Worse, it can lead to confusion because the same location may occur more than once on a track, eg. This is somewhat unnatural for their normal use (eg. (At the moment I treat an empty string as meaning that the waypoint label isn’t wanted.)īoth TCX and GPX associate labels with arbitrary geographic locations (not necessarily lying on a track). On the other hand, if I hear that all devices accept empty names, I can relax the requirement that you have to provide at least one character. If I hear that there are devices which reject tracks with long waypoint names, I may have to change policy. I formerly limited the name to 10 characters, but I’ve handled tracks from other sources with longer names and even my Garmin device didn’t throw any problems. Nonetheless, in conformity with the TCX standard, I insist that you provide a name string of at least one character. Often the type contains all the information you care about, especially when it’s a turn direction. ![]() GPX files have an analogous feature in which the definitions are looser: it looks like the name and type are both unconstrained strings. The name is required by the TCX definition to be between 1 and 10 characters. The name is an arbitrary text string adding extra information (eg. The type is drawn from a limited set (‘Turn left’, ‘Danger’ etc.) and an icon is associated with each type. If you want to put a label between two trackpoints, interpolate first, then add a label.)Ī TCX label has both a name and a type. (Note that you cannot label anything other than a point along the track. To attach a label to a point along a track, select it and hit the fountain pen button. You can interpolate backwards by hitting shift-tab, but this doesn’t serve much purpose. Move it with the mouse until you’re happy with its If you want to insert a point between two successive track points, select the earlier of them and hit the tab key. If you want to add points by interpolation, see the next section. Suppose you want to extend the track backwards, to show how you reach it from the road. Do this repeatedly until you have all the points you want. Point at where you want the first point of the extension, and shift-click with the mouse. Load the track and select satellite imagery. Suppose you have a GPS track for a forest descent, and want to extend it until it reaches the nearest road. Then combine the remaining segments by clicking the broken cogwheel button and choosing ‘Combine with previous/next segment’. You can then delete the entire segment by hitting shifted delete or backspace. Segment contains the points you want to delete. To delete a set of points you can delete the points one by one.Īlternatively you can split the track into segments (see below) so that one You can’t do any harm because the action can be undone. To delete a single point, select it and hit the delete or backspace button. Drag it to the position you want with the mouse, If you view a track against the satellite image you may decide you want toĪdjust the position of a point. If you click on the fountain pen icon you will be able to add turn information or a label saying (for instance) that the point is a peak or valley. If you click on the ‘Waypoint properties’ button (third from the left) you will be able to change some of the point’s properties. ![]() If you don’t want the optimisation, you can click on the ‘Undo’ button (backwards arrow) immediately after loading to undo it. Selected, or by using the left and right arrow buttons to move between points. You can navigate between track points either by clicking on the route, in which case the nearest point will be the number of points reduced to the minimum needed for accuracy). When the file is loaded it will be optimised (i.e. Clicking on the cogwheel button and then on ‘Help’ gives youĪ succinct reminder of routemaster’s functions and a link to full documentation. ![]() Various editing operations are available from the iconised buttons at the bottom of the screen and from It will be displayed against a Google map. The Browse button, and choose a GPX, TCX, FIT or KML file from your file system. With compressed timestamps, as produced by newer Garmin devices. Theįollowing hints cover the simplest tasks. The same menu is displayed under the load prompt. Self-explanatory but in case of difficulty theres a help menu under I would like to think that routemaster was You canĮither upload a track from your own computer or view a track stored anywhere In TCX, GPX, KML or FIT format, or may be Google Maps direction pages. Routemaster is an online tool to display and edit GPS tracks and toĭisplay multi-track indexes. ![]()
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