Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Everything module
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From: Dean E. <de...@ea...> - 2006-07-17 09:56:49
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Andy Armstrong wrote: > I'm writing a Perl wrapper for gpsbabel which I'll release on CPAN as > GPS::Babel. The plan is to be able to do things like this: > > my $babel = GPS::Babel->new(exe => '/usr/local/bin/gpsbabel'); > > my $data = $babel->read(src => '/somefile.geo', fmt => 'geo'); > $data->write(dst => 'otherfile.gpx', fmt => 'gpx'); > > (among many other things) > > I'd like a format that exports all the fields of routes, tracks and > waypoints that gpsbabel supports so that I can parse it into a Perl > data structure and then convert that data structure back into a > format gpsbabel can parse. As far as I can see custom, xcsv et al > only handle waypoint data and > <SNIP> > > Implies that there isn't a general purpose format that encodes and > decodes all supported fields. Is that correct? Isn't this what GPX is for? Obviously, it wont store everything that can be outputted by NMEA but it holds everything relevant. -- Dean Earley, Dee (de...@ea...) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk phone: +44 (0)780 8369596 |