> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:50:13 +0200 > From: "Armin M. Warda" <armin.warda at googlemail.com> > Subject: [maemo-users] how to determine track's length from GPX-file > generated by Maemo-Mapper? > To: maemo-users at maemo.org > Message-ID: <200607092050.15117.Armin.Warda at googlemail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi, > > how can I compute the length of a track or track-segment > (= distance travelled) from a GPX-file I generated with > Maemo-Mapper, the Nokia770's GPS-Mapper? > > Do you know a free web service or linux software, to which > I can input my GPX-file and which then outputs the length > of the track or track segments? > I put together a quick Ruby script to do this for any number of tracks put in on the command line: $> gpx.rb track1.gpx track2.gpx track1.gpx: 0.84534 miles track2.gpx: 0.98521 miles http://highearthorbit.com/projects/geolocation/gpx.rb This should also work on the Nokia770 w/ Ruby installed. Andrew -- Andrew Turner ajturner at highearthorbit.com 42.4266N x 83.4931W http://highearthorbit.com Northville, Michigan, USA
