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    Any useful utilities for importing gps tracks and waypoints? Ideally reading the gpsx file and generating plines / points?

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    Default Re: GPSX import?

    Looks like QGIS has a few to choose from:

    2018-10-08_10-23-04.png


    [Edit] - This might also help: https://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/us...ugins_gps.html

    FWIW, I had more luck with the 32-bit installer, but working a treat since installing it... Now handles GDB/MDB natively (no supplementary configuration needed anymore).

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    I can work with that -- of course if you're interested in writing native import routine in Acad, I'll be happy to test it out for you, Mapping some hiking trails in a state park, and am running a handheld Garmin device to do it.

    Pity autodesk has so little interest in interoperability, but that seems to have been the case for decades now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cadtag View Post
    I can work with that -- of course if you're interested in writing native import routine in Acad, I'll be happy to test it out for you, Mapping some hiking trails in a state park, and am running a handheld Garmin device to do it.

    Pity autodesk has so little interest in interoperability, but that seems to have been the case for decades now.
    Can you post a sample data file so I can take a look?

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    Default Re: GPSX import?

    sure, I'll post a hiking trail gpx today. need to do it before Michael kills the power and telecomm in the Panhandle. By morning i'll probably be sitting in the dark with no ac, phone, or internet. Good thing i've got a stack of books to read by candle light.

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    I was just coming back to say no worries, take all the time you need and to just stay safe; my thoughts are with you & wifey.

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    Default Re: GPSX import?

    Well as long can still connect, i'll keep on keeping on. Hunkering down time is coming RSN

    I attached a gpx from a short trail, rename the extension back to gpx from txt

    I _think_ that the output should be 3dPolys, as there should be elevation information with the track. The other element(s) if any would be waypoints, and ideally they ought to become a block in the DWG,

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    Good news, this is just XML data.

    Do you prefer to import .GPX data into C3D directly as COGO Points/*Polylines, or just right click .GPX in File Explorer and convert point file for import using 'Lat-Long' Point File Format, Survey DB, etc?

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    Default Re: GPSX import?

    This also seems to work and supports multiple output file types (DXF, SHP, etc), so long as you don't mind a multi-step workflow (upload, convert, download, unblock, extract, import/open in CAD):

    https://mygeodata.cloud/converter/gpx-to-dxf

    Also has a neat map view that shows the data IRL.
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    Default Re: GPSX import?

    Direct import as 3dpoly's, letting me pick/create layer for the linestrings, and points/block for the vertices or any waypoints in the gpx/ ( I don't think I had any set in that track on the Garmin)

    format spec doc is at https://www.topografix.com/gpx/1/1/

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