Processing GPX file

adam.paciorek · 2020-11-16T23:25:33.299Z

Hello Bubble Fam,

I was wondering if anyone had experience with users uploading GPX files to their app that, after processing can be displayed on the map and analysed?

For a bare minimum, I would need to extract the date, total distance covered and elevation change but some kind of visualisation would be very beneficial.

Maybe there is a plugin that can process overall gps data?

cmarchan · 2020-11-16T23:33:44.084Z

You could consider reviewing plugins such as these in the plugins area:

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adam.paciorek · 2020-11-17T00:12:17.643Z

Yes, saw those. But none of them seems to accept historical data from GPX file

kaventan1 · 2020-11-17T12:11:04.458Z

GPX files are XML files. They are similar in layout to markup files. If there are no Plugins you will have to consider writing your own. It requires iterating the GPX file line by line and extracting the relevant information that you want to store in a thing.

If there is an existing plugin that allows you to open a file and then extract the text line by line, you can use a Backend workflow to process the texts using Regular Expression to get the coordinates, waypoint data, etc. Reference for GPX format.

chris.sj · 2021-01-31T19:01:34.547Z

Hi Adam,

Saw your post looking for a solution for GPX data. How did you make out? Did you find a solution?
I’m looking to do something similar.

thanks

-Chris