| Lines from one place to another | ||
 | Written by nwilde 36 months ago | |
| I have upload as KLM files the locations I have traveled, but I can't seem to get lines placed from one destination to another - only the coordinate marker. Any idea what i am doing wrong | ||
| Re: Lines from one place to another | ||
 | Written by gregor 36 months ago | |
| Hi nwilde, I checked both uploaded .KML files and each of them contained only one placemark. One for Thetford and the other one for Jonkoping. If you don't have the GPS track file which would mark the progress of your travel in between I would suggest just adding trip entries manually for each place you stopped. All you need to do is go to the Edit mode and then Add trip entries where you can search for the exact location using the location wizard. If you need additional help just let me know. | ||
| Re: Lines from one place to another | ||
 | Written by iwaitforxmas 36 months ago, edited by iwaitforxmas 36 months ago | |
| I have a very similar problem; we visit many locations all over Asia and I want to record them in one 'big' trip. Works fine so far, but when I add GPX files for small local trips, the lines between manually added locations disappear (see: http://triptracker.net/trip/5306/). I.e. we made a trip in Switzerland, added a GPX for it. Then moved to Bangkok (no GPX), continued to Phnom Penh with a GPX. Switzerland is not connected to Bangkok which is not connected to Phnom Penh. It would be nice to have a checkbox to connect a location to the previous location, optionally. A hack is, I craft a GPX file which connects Switzerland-->Bangkok-->PhnomPenh, basically overlaying and faking "a trek". Since we travel for another 7 months all over Asia and I plan to heavily use many features of the page (hopefully soon able to spend money for more disk quota :-D), this is a lot of work... It seems like triptraker supports either no GPS files at all resulting in connection between manually added points, or only GPS files. Hope I could help & cheers from Vietnam (for now) Andreas btw. great site! Many nice features, well coded - just nobody on the net knows about it! Hope this changes soon. Im doing propaganda for you guys while travelling :) | ||
| Re: Lines from one place to another | ||
| Written by gregor 36 months ago | |
| This may sound strange but this is not a bug, it's a feature. It was implemented this way on purpose. I would agree that in your case it would look better if the trip entries were connected but there is no way of detecting which trip entries are connected with GPS track and which not. We also discussed the option of allowing the user to choose like you suggested but decided to limit the number of options for simplicity. So far the only option to go around this is to do as you are already doing. I would suggest to use just manual trip entries while traveling and upload a complete GPX when you return. You can fairly easy merge the trip entries GPX retrieved from the site and GPX files from your GPS. I hope this helps at least a little bit. Thank you for using TripTracker! I am glad you like it :) | ||
| Re: Lines from one place to another | ||
| Written by iwaitforxmas 35 months ago | |
| Thanks for the quick response, this sounds completely understandable; its a design decision. I did as you advised and removed the tracks. Now a new problem arised. I use a lot of geotagged photos for my blog, which confuse triptracker. Now all pictures with geotags are connected to each other but the manually added locations are not integrated. This renders the page unusable. It seems that you either a) use triptracker for travel blogging not using tracks and no geotagged pics or b) use tracks and geotagged pics There are two solutions: 1) Add an overlaying gpx (I would do that if i would know a good software to create one, maybe even use an additional triptracker Trip) 2) An option to enable/disable autoroute integration for pics One thing i don't understand: "...there is no way of detecting which trip entries are connected with GPS track and which not." Well theres the time in gpx. If you always connect the last entry from a track to the next manually added location, it should work out. Anway, keep up the great work! I'll be blogging on here for the next 7 months :-) Cheers from the beach (Phu Quoc) Andreas | ||
| Re: Lines from one place to another | ||
| Written by iwaitforxmas 35 months ago | |
| I solved the problem; I wrote a small app which downloads the GPX from the triptracker.net page, converts the <wpt> sections into <trackseg> and <trackpt> directives and saves the file. Works perfectly and fast! Here the code (drop me a mail if you want a compiled binary): http://www.copypastecode.com/codes/view/4344 | ||
| Re: Lines from one place to another | ||
| Written by gregor 35 months ago | |
| Very nice. I hope we will soon implement the functionality so that you don't need to work around it like that. Regarding your previous question. TripTracker should handle geotagged photos with either a track or manual added locations. The only exception to this rule was handling of both tracks and manually set trip entries as you found out. I was looking at your problem over the weekend. It looked like one of the pictures (image 54) was incorrectly automatically placed in Cambodia by the system while it should be in Bangkok. The location of the photo was set automatically and from the looks of it it should be placed in Bangkok. I guess there is still a corner case in the algorithm which we do not cover. I was planning on suggesting that you try and set the location type of that photo to automatic again which would probably resolve the problem. But I guess this is not needed any more since you already made a bigger change to the trip and the locations were reassigned properly. Let me know if it happens again. | ||