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Generate GPX files from Furkot trip data.
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Swap Furkot Comment and Description data in GPX & Garmin GPX Export files. #5

Closed allthingssatnav closed 9 years ago

allthingssatnav commented 9 years ago

Garmin has decided to only include GPX comment information for Waypoints in their newer GPS devices. Even though this is inconsistent with GPX Schema since is defined as for User Information purposes not the GPS device. They still include a merged Comment-Description field for User Custom POI data - as they always have. I confirmed this with Garmin Software Engineering.

It would therefore be preferable to have Furkot Export Stops (waypoints) Description text as GPX Comments and the Address field data as GPX Descriptions .

melitele commented 9 years ago

I think we want to treat Garmin route GPX export (1) and generic GPX export (2) separately for this issue.

  1. With Garmin route GPX we already export addresses as Address Waypoint Extension as defined in this schema: http://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensionsv3.xsd . Presumably Garmin devices that support ViaPoint/ShapingPoint Route Extension also support Address Waypoint Extension. If that's the case I propose we export stop description text as <cmt> element. Given your discussion with Garmin SE I don't see much value in exporting <desc> element at all.
  2. When exporting a generic GPX file I prefer merging to swapping. If a stop has both address and description the corresponding <wpt> element will have both <cmt> and <desc> set to the same value: address followed by the description.
allthingssatnav commented 9 years ago

A perfect solution.

melitele commented 9 years ago

done