[postgis-users] What are people using to load gps data? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Roppola, Antti - BRS]

Matthew Perry wrote:

> gpsbabel -> gpx2shp -> shp2pgsql works great for me. I just wrap it in

> a little shell/bat script so everytime I need to get data off my gps 
> into the database, its just a single command.

Does that just do tracks, or does it also maintain attribute data for
each point (date/time, z-value, etc.)?

I was thinking that keeping the points as points and having a line view
would be a neat way of presenting tidy lines and keeping attribute data.

Antti

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