Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] GPSBabel generating "bad" GPX files?
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From: utahnix <ut...@gm...> - 2009-07-27 18:27:49
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Robert Lipe wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:28 AM, utahnix <ut...@gm... > <mailto:ut...@gm...>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to GPSBabel, so it's entirely possible my current conundrum is > my own doing. What I'm trying to do is download GPS data from a Garmin > GPS 60 via USB. The command succeeds, but nothing I can throw at can > open the resulting GPX file... says it's a bad or invalid file. > > I'm running the x86_64 version of openSUSE Linux 11.1 > (2.6.27.25-0.1-default). I have GPSBabel 1.3.6, which I acquired from > one of the official openSUSE Yast repositories. > > This is the command I run: > gpsbabel -i garmin -r -t -f usb:0 -o gpx -F /home/utahnix/testbabel.gpx > > > Without seeing the file or the errors involved, it's hard to say much. > Fortunately, GPX is very well defined and it's easy to test if a GPX > file is good by passing it through a validator. That lets you > authoritatively assign blame to either the reader or the writer. > > If you find a case where the above command results in GPX that won't > validate, we'd definitely be interested in addressing that. > > RJL That's certainly understandable. Is there a GPX validator in particular that you would personally recommend? |