[FOSS-GPS] foxtrotgps: Source code for features for manual track editing

[Jochen Peters]

Hi Sun Wu Kong,

that is funny! Thank you for your help, but I did not ask for a plugin
for a Microsoft product, especially when I was already able to create
c-code for distance measurement. 

:-D

Am Mon, 1 Jun 2020 08:01:17 -0700
schrieb sunwukong <sunwukong at hughes.net>:

> If you put the track into excel you can use a distance pluggin called 
> vincentry to calculate the geodesic distance and azimuth. A total of 
> this will be a very accurate measure of total track distance.
> 
> see
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vincenty+distance+excel&atb=v223-2rk&ia=web
> 
> On 06/01/2020 07:47, Jochen Peters wrote:
> > Hello, everyone,
> >
> > I use foxtrotgps to measure the tracks I have driven - without gps
> > data. Although foxtrotgps has this function, but there is no
> > possibility to save it. I would also like to be able to load these
> > tracks with a distance measurement. For this I have implemented the
> > following ideas in the code:
> >
> > - with the distance measurement the coordinates are attached to the
> > content of the clipboard instead of being exchanged
> > - these coordinates are not appended to the clipboard with "lat -
> > lon", but with "lat,lon,distance distunit".
> > - when loading tracks, the distance per coordinate is calculated
> > and (additively) output in the console with g_printf().
> >
> > These small adjustments make it possible for me to measure tracks
> > with foxtrotgpsby hand and save it as track via clipboard in a text
> > file. Furthermore I can read these files afterwards with foxtrotgps
> > (and other lists with coordinates) and have the track measured
> > (distance).
> >
> > Since I'm not sure if this changed behaviour of foxtrotgps is also
> > desired by other users, I don't know if (and how) I should transmit
> > these changes with Bazaar.
> >
> > So at this point I wanted to ask how I should proceed and whether
> > there is any interest at these changes.
> >
> > kindly regards
> > Jochen
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