+exfedup Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 (edited) When I download a GPX file to my notebook, it will not give me the decrypted hints . I can only get the encrypted copy. Should add that whe I download the encripted copy, the unencripting (sp?) featuire does not work. The notebook has Windows 7 Edited September 27, 2010 by exfedup Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 What software are you using on your notebook? Quote Link to comment
+exfedup Posted September 27, 2010 Author Share Posted September 27, 2010 What software are you using on your notebook? Windows 7, see my edit Quote Link to comment
+New Jersey TJ Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 What software are you using on your notebook? Windows 7, see my edit Ummm, what software APPLICATION are you using to open the gpx files? Quote Link to comment
+exfedup Posted September 28, 2010 Author Share Posted September 28, 2010 What software are you using on your notebook? Windows 7, see my edit Ummm, what software APPLICATION are you using to open the gpx files? It downloads to my C:/ as a GPS Exhange File Quote Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Ok. But once you download the file to your Windows 7 computer, then what are you doing? What software program are you using to OPEN and VIEW the file? Where is it that you are seeing the "unencrypted/encrypted" hints? Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 I'm sure your well aware that the hints in the .gpx file is *NOT* encrypted, but is in plain text. The computer operating system has nothing to do with this. Quote Link to comment
+GClouse Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 The gpx files are in an xml format, but the hint fields are encode using a very simple code known as "Rot13". ROT 13 is a simple letter substiturion code each letter is replaced by the thirteenth letter after the one being encoded. manual decoding and encoding is simple using a key like this: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM to decode, find the letter on the second line and read the letter above it on the first line. What I prefer though, is to use the programg "GPSBabel" from a bath file to translate the gpx file into an html file. GPSBabel decrypts the hints by default in the html file. I also use GPSBabel to create a kml file that can be view on google earth, to aid in planning my cashing trips. Quote Link to comment
+New Jersey TJ Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 The gpx files are in an xml format, but the hint fields are encode using a very simple code . . . That's true for the web site . . . the hints are obscured using ROT13. However, in a downloaded .gpx file, the hint is not obscured, it is in plain text. For example: <Groundspeak:encoded_hints>between</Groundspeak:encoded_hints> Quote Link to comment
+exfedup Posted September 30, 2010 Author Share Posted September 30, 2010 The gpx files are in an xml format, but the hint fields are encode using a very simple code . . . That's true for the web site . . . the hints are obscured using ROT13. However, in a downloaded .gpx file, the hint is not obscured, it is in plain text. For example: <Groundspeak:encoded_hints>between</Groundspeak:encoded_hints> Ok, Ok I am a low level techee cretin. I know that I can convert the hints manually. I was just trying to understand why when I download a GPX file where the hints have been translated, it shows up on my computer as encoded? Why must one always find a third party download to solve the oversight problems created by the original authors? Quote Link to comment
+coggins Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 Ok, Ok I am a low level techee cretin. I know that I can convert the hints manually. I was just trying to understand why when I download a GPX file where the hints have been translated, it shows up on my computer as encoded? Why must one always find a third party download to solve the oversight problems created by the original authors? OK, seeing that you have a Garmin, you can use BaseCamp and it will translate back and forth without any third party softwares: FREE GARMIN SOFTWARE Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 The gpx files are in an xml format, but the hint fields are encode using a very simple code . . . That's true for the web site . . . the hints are obscured using ROT13. However, in a downloaded .gpx file, the hint is not obscured, it is in plain text. For example: <Groundspeak:encoded_hints>between</Groundspeak:encoded_hints> Ok, Ok I am a low level techee cretin. I know that I can convert the hints manually. I was just trying to understand why when I download a GPX file where the hints have been translated, it shows up on my computer as encoded? Why must one always find a third party download to solve the oversight problems created by the original authors? I don't think your grasping what people are asking and saying. The hints, as they come from Groundspeak, ARE NOT ENCODED. There is no oversight, the hints are in plain text and are not encoded. You can read them just fine in an editor like notepad. Now the question you have avoided answering is what do you do with the gpx file *after* you download them? It is after you download the gpx file that the hints become encoded, that is the step we need to know about so we can help you. Quote Link to comment
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