Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Two new (output) filters + fixes to util.c

[Jeff B. <je...@bo...>]

Ignoring the philosophical points brought up here, these filterswould be 
very useful to me. I was thinking of writing something similar. Is there 
really much harm in including it? It doesn't affect any other filters, 
right?

Jeff

Scott Brynen wrote:

> OK; I think I should have the opportunity to add my 0.05 here.  
> Although the primary
> reason for the filters are to create human readable GPX files, they're 
> also EXTREMELY
> helpful in creating human readable anything files.  Have you ever 
> wanted a quick text listing
> of Mapsource waypoints?  Have you ever needed a list of all of those 
> .LOC files for your webpage?
> In fact have you ever wished you could just list a file textually when 
> you were working on debugging
> something else?
>
> My primary reason/logic behind scripting these was that I really 
> wanted a complete one page format,
> and I wanted the tool to be scriptable under 'nix.  This ruled out 
> GSAK and Spinner as they're windows based
> and GPX2HTML as it creates it's own multi-page website of the files, 
> and I really wanted one big list, just in a
> human readable form.
>
> The choices were to 'go it alone' or build it into the handy-dandy 
> codebase of gpsbabel, which gave it the other
> advantage of being able to read something other than GPX.
>
> In summary, I believe, as it creates just a single output file, and is 
> translating waypoints into an output format
> (human/text or human/browser) format, outputs no more and no less than 
> what it was fed, it makes it
> a valid and valuable addition to gpsbabel.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> At 09:15 AM 3/23/2004, Robert Lipe wrote:
>
>> Hi, Scott.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay on this, as I was travelling.
>>
>> > text.c and html.c output filters - for reference of waypoint files
>>
>> I have really mixed feelings about these.....  I've tried to keep 
>> GPSBabel
>> in the business of file format transformations (with the whole serial
>> comm thing being kind of a special case of the "devices are files"
>> thing) and not really a geocaching-specific tool......
>
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