Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] return only path, not points in tracks

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Mike Dodge <dmi...@gm...> wrote:

> OK, I need to revisit this because I am kind of having the same problem
> again.  I am pulling data off a couple data loggers and sticking it into two
> KML files.  Then I want to combine the files into one, so I use the correct
> syntax to combine two files into one:
> C:\dda-gps\GPSBabel>gpsbabel -i kml -f "C:\dda-gps\Temp\output.kml" -f
> "C:\dda-gps\Temp\output1.kml" -o kml -F "C:\dda-gps\Temp\output3.kml"
>

Merge them before you get to KML if you can.  Reading KML isn't lossless for
us.



>
> Then it made a super huge 5mb+ file.  The two source files were 68kb and
> 466kb.  So I looked at the file and the bulk of it was all this extra track
> data that I have no idea where it got it from.  I would not like to have
> this in my file if at all possible.  Here is an example of the extra data I
> was seeing.
>


That's the trackdata that defaults to 'on'.

See
http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_kml.html#fmt_kml_o_trackdata

RJL