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tumic0 / GPXSee

GPS log file viewer and analyzer with support for GPX, TCX, KML, FIT, IGC, NMEA, SLF, SML, LOC, GPI, GeoJSON and OziExplorer files.
https://www.gpxsee.org
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Open a KML file from a URL? #547

Closed mmcc-xx closed 2 months ago

mmcc-xx commented 2 months ago

If this is possible currently, I don't see how.

My son is cycling the US from coast to coast this summer and has a Garmin Inreach. Garmin offers a KML feed with his location from the device at a URL specific to the device - something like https://share.garmin.com/Feed/Share/XXXXX.

I have GPX files of his route and services available along the route (from adventurecycling.org), and GPXSee is really useful for helping him with logistics.

I can download the KML feed from Garmin, and then open it in GPX see and see his current location. This is very helpful. However, it would be even more helpful if I could have GPXSee open the feed URL.

It would be even better than that if I could hit the refresh button and see his location update. It would be even better than that if it automatically updated every, say, every couple minutes.

tumic0 commented 2 months ago

In the Qt6 version of GPXSee you can follow a possition from a network NMEA stream when you configure the NMEA positioning plugin in the propper way. But a KML file fetched repeatedly over HTTP is not supported and not very realistic to happen any soon. Even the local auto update (#337) has not yet been touched for ages...