+unclerojelio Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Before I go and reinvent the wheel, has anyone out there written a gpx 2 vcf converter? Barring that, does anyone out there have a gpx parser they are willing to share their source to? Any language will do, except maybe haskell. She doesn't know it yet, but I'm fixin' to turn the wife's iPod into the world's coolest geocaching cache library. Anyone want to guess how many cache pages I can fit into 5 gB? And how long that will take to transfer via Firewire? ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, ... unclerojelio Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 I don't know if it supports VCF, but you should check out GPSBabel. It's open source, so if it doesn't already handle VCF, you could just add it as a supported filetype (and submit your patches for inclusion! ). -- Pehmva! Random quote: Quote Link to comment
+unclerojelio Posted July 29, 2003 Author Share Posted July 29, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Cruzin!:I don't know if it supports VCF, but you should check out http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/. Excellent!! ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, ... unclerojelio Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Depending on what you want to do, GPSBabel will be either perfect or a forced fit. There has been one other person that asked about vcf but he never pursued it. If you're wanting a glorified place to hold waypoints, along with some geocaching "value add" such as cache type, difficulty, and terrain, GPSBabel is probably a good starting place. If you're wanting a full fledged, hint-decoding, show the nearby caches, display the background jpgs, sort the caches for display in a googlefroopillion ways, display the logs kind of program, GPSBabel would be a forced fit. It really is a converter, not a geocaching application. Honestly, for that kind of a project, the GPX parser that is used in GPSBabel (open-coded C from libexpat) wouldn't be worth liberating and I'd start with Perl's XML::Twig or a similar tool. I consider gpx.c in the GPSBabel source to be probably the nastiest module in the tree. Follow-up to gpsbabel-{code,misc} at lists.sourceforge.net, please. The maintainers would like to hear from you... Quote Link to comment
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