[Gpsbabel-misc] Google KML to Garmin GPX conversions.

[Remi C. <rem...@gm...>]

>> I have a kml file with a simple entry. It has <name>, <Snippet>,
>> <description>, and <coordinates> entries.
>> I run it through gpsbabel as "-i infile -I kml -o gpx,gpxver=1.1 -F
>> outfile" and it seems that what I *thought* would be the field mapping
>> isn't reality.
>> I expected kml:<Snippet> to go to the gpx:<cmt> field. Instead, the
>> kml:<description> field goes to gpx:<cmt> and the same to gpx:<desc>

> Its messy.  Both kml and GPX have many textual things you can staple to a
> position. We try to map the best we can for com,on cases, but for some
> cases we don't do so well.  Snippet was pretty rare in the kml that
> influenced our reader.

We have a comparable problem. Our KML <description> data contain HTML
tags enclosed in CDATA markers as suggested here:
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kml_tut

Now, the difficulty is that GPX does not understand HTML of course,
and GPSBabel is not able to convert these tags. What would you pleaswe
suggest:
* Change our KML data by not generating HTML tags ?
* Or fix GPSBabel to convert these HTML tags to plain text ?

Last question please: Apparently, GPX does not give any information
about how CMT and DESC tags can be formatted :
http://www.topografix.com/gpx_manual.asp#desc . If we wish to convert,
for example, HTML tables to plain text, would it be possible to tabs,
newlines etc... ?

Thanks