![]() You can now see in the “Range details” section that this part of the track is 8.55 km long, climbs 346 m and descends just 10 m. Select Range ‣ Set range end to finish the selection. Select a point at the top of the climb by clicking on the highest point of the altitude profile. Select Range ‣ Set range start to make this point the start of the selection. To find out how long the climb is, we will select just the part of the track which contains the climb, and then we will be able to view the properties of this selected range, such as the distance, climb and descent.Ĭlick on the point at the start of the climb, just north of Dunedin, to select it. Now we can see both tracks in the same view. Again, we get a list of matching entries, and we can select one to view the description.Ĭlick the Load button to load the track, and select to append this track to the data we’ve already got. We can use the menu command Online ‣ Get Gpsies tracks to search for tracks on the website. We can also use an online service to download another track from the same area. You can then use the button Load to load that point into GpsPrune, or Show webpage to load the Wikipedia page in a browser. Clicking one of these entries in the list will show more information in the box below. This shows a list of articles whose coordinates are nearest to the selected point. We can do this by selecting a point, and then choosing the menu option Online ‣ Get nearby Wikipedia articles. Now let’s find out some more information about where this track is. Now that we can load and view files from the included file system, let’s see if we can supplement this with some online information as well, using some more advanced functions. ![]() This uses the maps from to show additional information useful for hiking and cycling such as contour lines and cycle routes. Let’s have a look at an alternative map source by selecting the fifth one, “Hikebikemap”. You can change the map with the menu option Settings ‣ Set map background. You can also click on the altitude profile to select the corresponding point. Clicking on a point will show the details including altitude and timestamp if available. Dragging with the right mouse button defines a rectangle to zoom to, and the right-click menu offers further options. You can drag the map around with the mouse, and zoom in and out with the mousewheel or by double-clicking. Icon at the top of the main map display, or with the menu option View ‣ Show Map. Now, assuming you have a network connection, you can activate the map by clicking the globe Below the main map display is an altitude chart, which shows the profile of the track If this track had any waypoints (which it doesn’t), then they would be shown too, marked with their names. Now you should see the track marked in blue against a white background. We choose just the first one and press OK. ![]() A suitable GPX file containing a couple of tracks can be found on the disc at ~/data/vector/gpx/test_trk2.gpx so we will load this one.īecause this file contains two tracks, we are offered the choice of which one(s) to load. This can be a GPX file, a KML or KMZ file, or even a comma-separated or tab-separated file if you have one. We will now load a file by using the menu command File ‣ Open file and selecting the file to load. ![]() This will then give you the empty window shown below. From the Start menu, choose Geospatial ‣ Navigation and Maps ‣ GpsPrune. ![]()
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