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From Planetk.de
When transferring tracks or routes to a Garmin GPS device, one often encounters the problem to have more than 500 sampling points in the file. In such cases, the device will truncate the routes to this number - which means that the final can never be reached. To circumvent this issue, I provide a little programme that sparsifies such files.
Call and Functionality
Just call the programme with input and output file, as well as the desired number of points (500):
./shortengpx <original.gpx> <new.gpx> <number>
The programme returns O for any kept point and . for a dropped one, and writes the output file.
Download
The program can be downloaded here:
shortengpx is free software. You can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. You may use version 3 of the license, or (at your option) any later version.
If you decide to redistribute this programme, please leave the name of the original author, Pascal Gwosdek, in the header of the source code or move it into a file AUTHORS.
