I saw a request for GPS Track Files, but I would love to see support for .GPX files. See http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp for what their schema. I've been trying to slowly build a site that allows people to upload and download GPX files of hikes and backpacking trips they have been on. I have seen a site that uses PHP, GPX files, and google maps at http://maps.kylemulka.com/gpxviewer.php, but would love to have something built into the Gmap module for Drupal.

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webgeer commented
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I fully intend on creating a new module that will use the GMap.module API that will do some fun stuff for parsing GPX files.

It will definitely show the map showing the tracks and it will show the waypoints with markers.

I would also like to add features so that it can graph the elevations over the distance, as well as speed.

This will be a new module node module. How it will work, is you will upload the file and then pick which things you would like to show (map, elevation graph, speed graph). You will then be able to do all of the other things you can do for nodes including do a write-up, set taxonomy. etc...

This is probably a little ways off, but I now have a GPS, so this is of interest to me...

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QuantumRiff commented

That will be excellent. Please email me at riffle@itsbunk.net if you want any beta testing done with this new module. I know a bit about PHP, i've written a few basic pages at work, but not enough to really do much from scratch, but can debug pretty good.

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andre75 commented

Maybe a combination with this module:
http://drupal.org/node/49436
which already handles GPX data would be good.
Unfortunately I cannot get track to run.
An option for downloading the GPX data (for others to upload to their GPS devices) would be much appreciated.

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Cromicon commented

I'm very interested in this as well. Unsurprising the development seems to be heady in the 4.7 direction however the main functionality of my site requires that I stick at 4.6 for while longer anyway.

Would it be possible for a 4.6 version to be done if I raise a bounty of some sorts? Please contact me regarding this. Thanks.

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andre75 commented

The track module is working. I guess I made a couple of mistakes. However the mapping functionality doesn't work right. It would be a killer feature to get this feature supported by the Gmap module.

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lenkkivihko commented
Version: 4.7.x-1.x-dev » 5.x-1.x-dev

+1 for this feature. Track module has not been updated for 5.x.
I would love to see GPX file support on 5.x as well.

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tom_ellenrieder commented

I also would be very interested in this.
Is development still ongoing?

It seems such a natural extensive of the GMAP module.

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chrissearle commented

Did this ever go anywhere? I was wondering about some kind of geocaching module and if this was available then that would be a simple extension. Don't really want to start from scratch if there is code out there somewhere ;)

Seems that the track module referenced above didn't make it past 4.7.x :(

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mhoegh commented

Check out: http://www.mapuse.net/node/23

/martin

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moksa commented

Gpx will be great, but KMZ too like it :
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=us&geocode=&q=http%3A%2F%2...

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keesee commented

Any updates on this. I am tring to get GPX files into drupal in a way that I can pull reports or display them in views.

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jacobmn commented

CorpX - I am looking to do something similar. I think the way to go in my case will just be to convert the XML to something Drupal can understand and import, like a CSV file. I will probably take mine into MS Access, scrub out the data I don't need and then export to CSV. This may be cumbersome but in my case it will work since I only have one set of data to import. There is lots of information about taking XML into Access and from there you can export nice comma-delimited files to work with Node Import module, etc.

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NickWebman commented

http://drupal.org/project/trackfield might get the job done. Going to try it here shortly.

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NickWebman commented

Trackfield did not get the job done. Couldn't get it to work, and I need to expose the controls to the user can upload a gpx track (like cck filefield) without jumping through hoops. Cool/useful concept though, it's just not quite done in my opinion.

Moving on to Track (in dev) -> http://drupal.org/node/49436

If that doesn't work, I'll try CCK+Geospacial Data -> http://drupal.org/node/664026

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