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<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Am 24.12.2014, 10:03 Uhr, schrieb Michael Scales <michael@iclapland.com>:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex">I have just begun with qgis and thanks to all those who post tutorials on youtube or in pdf.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using QGIS 2.6 Brighton on my mac OS X Yosemite and use a Garmin 62SC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My aim is to create trail maps.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I get a msg about babel from trying to import GPX data from my GPS.</div><div class="">So I exported it from Garmin Basecamp.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Normally, you can just dragndrop gpx files from a Garmins 62 SD card into the map canvas of QGIS without going via Basecamp or other stuff, with a promt for selecting which features from the file you want to import (waypoints, trackpoints, tracklines etc.). If this fails, everything else will fail too.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not know exactly, but I think that QGIS uses the gpsbabel command line program to do stuff, so check if that was installed with QGIS (refering to your message mentioned).</div><div><br></div><div>Additionally, open the GPX file as a text document and check if there is anything under the first block of header lines with metadata: e.g.</div><div><trk><br><trkseg><br> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"><br> <ele>4.46</ele><br> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:26Z</time><br> </trkpt><br> </trkseg><br> </trk></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am pulling my map from open street map as it is open source.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I open the GPX through add vector layer it says unknown in features and nothing happens.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am keen to do some education alas I am an Aussie in the Arctic living in a small village in the north of Sweden.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If any one has a little patience and pointers I would truly appreciate the help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Bernd</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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