Optionally transform waypoints to trackpoints on GPX load

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Please describe what your requested feature would do, how it would work,
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"CloudMade" who work heavily with OpenStreetMap data have a routing API. You 
pass in a start and end location to the API and it can supply a route as a GPX 
file:

http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/routing-http-api/examples/gpx-response

Unfortunately you cannot use these GPX files with MyTracks. They only contain 
way points and route points.

I would like to see a file load option that allows way points to be considered 
as track points. See also issue 163.

One should note that if waypoints were to be shown as in issue 163, then there 
could potentially be a huge number of waypoints to show and manipulate. To 
follow a route, only a track is needed, not a huge number of waypoint markers. 
Hence this request - I just want a route to follow.

Have attached an example of a CloudMade GPX file as an example of a route that 
one could follow.

See also GPSbabel and how Google Earth handles loading:
http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/filter_transform.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bigya...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2011 at 7:46

Attachments:

• route_from_SimcockStreet_to_BurlingtonStreet.gpx

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This seems like a task better handled by an offline program or fixed in 
cloudmade.

Original comment by sandordo...@google.com on 3 Mar 2011 at 6:29

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Agree that this should be done outside My Tracks or fixed in CloudMade.

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 21 Dec 2012 at 12:08

• Changed state: WontFix