Gpsprune User Guide
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GpsPrune User Guide from the Activity Workshop version 4.0, September 2014 for more information, see http://gpsprune.activityworkshop.net/userguide.html II Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is GpsPrune for . .1 1.2 Example screenshots . .2 1.3 Available languages . .4 1.4 Terminology . .5 1.5 What’s new . .7 2 How to get it 8 2.1 Licence and cost . .8 2.2 Available platforms . .8 2.3 How to download . .9 2.4 Versions . 11 2.5 How to run it . 12 2.6 Dependencies . 14 2.7 Downloading the source code . 15 3 Main window 17 3.1 Components and controls . 17 3.2 Menu commands . 22 3.3 Toolbar buttons . 22 3.4 Keyboard shortcuts . 23 4 Loading data 24 4.1 Loading from file . 24 4.2 From Wikipedia . 29 4.3 Entering coordinates directly . 30 4.4 From a GPS receiver . 31 4.5 From gpsies.com . 34 4.6 Appending or replacing . 36 5 Viewing data 37 5.1 Viewing a track . 38 5.2 Selecting a point . 39 5.3 Selecting a range . 41 5.4 Time estimation . 43 5.5 Weather forecasts . 46 6 Viewing maps 48 6.1 Enabling maps . 48 6.2 Selecting a different map server . 49 III 6.3 Adding a new map server . 51 6.4 Using a disk cache . 53 6.5 Viewing in a browser . 56 7 Settings 57 7.1 Appearance settings . 57 7.2 Language settings . 60 7.3 Program paths . 61 7.4 Saving settings . 61 7.5 Automatically saving settings . 62 8 Editing data 63 8.1 Deleting a point or range . 63 8.2 Undo . 65 8.3 Deleting field values . 66 8.4 Cutting and moving a range . 66 8.5 Reversing a range . 67 8.6 Splitting a track into segments . 67 8.7 Joining track segments together . 68 8.8 Rearranging waypoints . 70 8.9 Dragging a point . 71 8.10 Editing a point . 72 8.11 Adding a time offset . 73 8.12 Adding an altitude offset . 74 8.13 Merging files . 75 9 Data compression 76 9.1 Duplicate removal . 77 9.2 Nearby point removal . 78 9.3 Wacky point removal . 79 9.4 Singleton removal . 80 9.5 Douglas-Peucker compression . 80 9.6 Combining compression methods . 81 10 Creating data 82 10.1 Creating a single point . 82 10.2 Interpolating between points . 83 10.3 Averaging a set of points . 83 10.4 Dragging a new point . 84 10.5 Creating a series of points . 85 10.6 Looking up altitudes . 85 10.7 Faking timestamps . 87 11 Photos 88 11.1 Loading photos . 88 11.2 Photo details . 89 11.3 Linking a photo to a point . 90 11.4 Automatic correlation . 90 IV 11.5 Saving coordinates to Exif . 93 11.6 Saving photo thumbnails to Kmz . 95 11.7 Loading linked photos . 97 11.8 Rearranging photos . 98 12 Audio files 99 12.1 Using the results . 99 12.2 Recording audio files . 100 12.3 Loading audio files . 100 12.4 Audio file details . 100 12.5 Connecting an audio file to a point . 101 12.6 Automatic correlation . 101 12.7 Loading linked audio files . 103 13 Saving data 104 13.1 Saving to a file . 104 13.2 Sending to a GPS receiver . 108 13.3 Uploading to Gpsies . 110 13.4 Contributing to OpenStreetMap . 111 13.5 Charts . 113 13.6 Saving a map image . 115 14 3D views 117 14.1 Interactive 3D view . 117 14.2 POV-Ray . 121 14.3 SVG image . 124 15 Example use cases 126 15.1 Planning a trip . ..