Map My Walk and GPX files
In one of the Zoom briefings I heard Dan suggest Map My Walk as the free way of using the GPX files. I've just tried this now and the GPX files from slow ways will not upload - if gives an error. (the GPX in question was 4479_Covbed_Coventry_Bedworth.gpx )
Map My Walk states:
"GPX File Upload Notice:
GPX files must include track and time data to upload properly. Most GPX files created from a workout should be compatible. We cannot process GPX routes based on waypoints."
Would this explain the upload error? What should I do? Are there any other free apps that would work?
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"using the GPX files" is a little vague so a little difficult to recommend.
GPX files can contain different things: routes, tracks. I think a track is what a GPS records when you go for a walk and make a recording; it includes what time you were at each point.
On my phone I use OsmAnd to navigate with GPX files and to record them.
On my computer I use Viking, sometimes for editing and for handling geotagged photos.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/
For looking at routes on a map in a web browser I use Where's The Path.
https://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm
Hopefully one of those will let you do what you want. I won't make any claim as to how good they are compared to anything else, but they allow me to do all I have wanted. I tend to stop looking at new software once I have found something that does what I want.
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Thanks for your reply.
In terms of what I am using gpx files for, which I thought would have been obvious. I'm downloading routes from slow ways and want to upload them to a map app to help me walking the rote.I posted because one of the slow ways recommended apps - map my walk - doesn't accept the gpx files on slow ways.
Thanks for the recommendation of osmand, I'll try using this app to upload a gpx file from the site.
Chris
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I have not used map my walk, but I think it might be for uploading walk recordings you have made to keep/share a walk you have done.
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I've just tried OsmAnd ..it works fine with the slow ways gpx files, thanks for the recommendation!
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I have been using MapMyWalk for a few years and like it a lot. However, I hit the same problem as Chris recently in being unable to upload gpx files whether they came from SlowWays or anywhere else (including some that I had previously been able to upload). I raised it with MapMyWalk support on April 21st and was told it was a known problem. I would have thought it an important one but no resolution has been delivered yet. In the interim I have started using GPX Viewer Pro which is also good but I've yet to find how I can get it to simultaneously track against a loaded route and record my movement (drawing a line showing deviations from the gpx route loaded) as I've been used to doing with MapMyWalk.
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