Gpxity 1.7.2

A uniform interface to GPX services like mapmytracks or gpsies

Gpxity is a Python - library making it easy to move GPS-based tracks between different backends. In this context, a backend is a place where gpxfiles can be stored.

And there is a command line utility gpxdo helping you organize your gpxfiles. It lets you list, copy, merge, remove, edit, fix, compare backends and gpxfiles.

Find the documentation here: https://gpxity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The library currently implements those backends:

• Directory for .gpx files on an accessible file system

• Directory suited for server implementations

• For gpxfiles on https://gpsies.com

• For gpxfiles on https://openrunner.com

• For gpxfiles on http://mapmytracks.com

• For gpxfiles on a very simple server emulating a few MMT commands (just what oruxmaps uses for uploading)

• For the Wordpress plugin Trackserver

• Mails gpxfiles

• Keep everything in RAM only

Some backends might not support everything Gxpity wants and you will get the exception NotImplementedError().

Sometimes you might just change a harmless thing like the description but the backend does not allow changing this separately, so we have to re-upload the whole track. If it is is big and the remote server slow, this might take some time. Right now this library has no asynchronous interface, so it can really take some time until your program continues.

Sometimes Gpxity uses undocumented ways to access a backend - this is done when there is no documented way or when the official API implementation is buggy or too slow for real-life use.

Backends might change their behaviour, I intend to update Gpxity quickly in that case. The unittests of gpxity should notice all relevant changes.

Changelog

1.7.2 release 2020-01-10

• gpxdo split –waypoints

• gpxdo split –points

• gpxdo fix –simplify now allows specifying a max point size

• gpxdo fix –revert

• gpxdo keywords –dry-run now delivers output

• gpxdo ls for an empty directory showed an unwanted internal error message

• gpxdo ls failed for files without time in metadata

• gpxdo ls: show duration with seconds

• gpxdo: rename first-date and last-date to min-date and max-date

• Parsing gpx: show helpful info for syntax error

• mapsource does not understand <bounds …></bounds>

• Directory: symlinked files now also end with .gpx

• Parsing gpx: accept waypoints without name

• if a .gpx file cannot be parsed, also show its file name

• Symlinks got their time from gpx file last modification, now it is gpx.first_time

• updated lifetrack_client to current gpxity library and allow using a GPS mouse

• Directory backend: the symlink files now also end with .gpx

1.7.0 release 2019-02-27

• rename Track to GpxFile

• gpxdo clear now does some tasks previously done by gpxdo fix

• gpxdo clear –tracks using new GpxFile.join_tracks()

• .gpxity_config files are also searched in parent directories

• gpxdo fix –unique makes points unique

• Gpx.split_segment_after()

• gpxdo clear –untangle

• gpxdo help, gpxdo help ls

• new backend Memory

• gpxdo with colors

• gpxdo ls –validate-against discovers treating

• gpxity_server is more stable

1.6.0 release 2019-01-31

• replace auth_cfg with accounts, new syntax for identifiers

• Directory: the file .gpxity_config may define account settings

• WPTrackserver and Directory allow renaming by assigning new id_in_backend

• Backend.subscription shows the name of the subscription model

• gpxdo: dates may now contain a time

• gpxdo split –stops MINUTES instead of fix –jumps

• gpxdo fix –clear-times, –set-first-time, –set-last-time, –add-times, –clear-locations

• gpxdo ls –gap

• new: Track.locate_point() and Track.add_locations()

• split class Account into Account and DirectoryAccount

• integrate ServerDirectory into Directory

• gpxdo fix –add-waypoints adds waypoints to all segment starts

1.5.1 release 2019-01-02

• fix documentation at readthedocs.io

• gpxdo ls –location shows name of starting place: city, country

1.5.0 release 2019-01-02

• new backend for Openrunner

• gpxdo –similar now supports a list of tracks

• new: gpxdo –join

• Track.merge (and gpxdo merge) now also merge waypoints

• Up/Download for the same backend class is now lossless for category

• adapted MMT backend to server changes

1.4.1 release 2018-10-22

• Lifetrack fixes

• gpxity_server now supports https

1.4.0 release 2018-10-21

• many improvements to gpxity_server and backends with lifetracking capability

• fixes for WPTrackserver (wants local time and speed per position and distance per track)

• new: gpxdo dump –points

• new: Backend.fences for privacy zones

1.3.3.2 release 2018-10-04

• fix creating doc at readthedocs.io

1.3.3.1 release 2018-10-04

• all unittests can now be run in the test installation docker

1.3.3 release 2018-10-04

• new Backend WPTrackserver directly accessing its mysql database

• new: Backend.clone()

• new: Backend.needs_config

• new: Track.ids and gpxdo fix –id-from-backend

• new: gpxdo cp

• new: Track.first_different_point()

• Track.merge(), Backend.merge() and gpxdo merge have a new arg partial_tracks

• new: gpxdo fix –add-minutes

• new: gpxdo fix –simplify

• new: gpxdo fix –split

• new: track.index(other)

• new: simplify keyword handling: eliminate gpxdo kw –remove

• gpxdo kw is now gpxdo keywords

• new: gpxdo ls –locate and class Locate

• make gpxity_server for lifetracking more stable

1.3.2 release 2018-08-19

• make bin/install_test work with latest changes

1.3.1 release 2018-08-19

• Adapt to latest gpxpy 1.3.3

• Fix bugs

1.3.0 release 2018-08-18

This release renames class Activity to Track, and it renames Track.what to Track.category. The latter means that .gpx files should be adjusted: where the keywords now contain “What:”, change that to “Category:”.

• new: Track.last_point() avoids having to iterate over the full list

• new: gpxdo diff

• gpxdo: bash completion if argcomplete is installed (pip install argcomplete). Put this into your .bashrc: eval “$(register-python-argcomplete gpxdo)” or see https://argcomplete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• new in Track: speed(), moving_speed(), warnings()

• gpxdo –long shows warnings about strange tracks

• gpxdo –total

• gpxdo set –help shows all legal categories

• gpxdo ls: if no file/directory given, use “.”

• gpxdo: unify how backends/tracks are displayed. Remove leading “./” from names.

• gpxdo –debug shows backtrace for errors

• Backend.merge() now also accepts a single Track

• Backend.diff() now accepts an Track, a Backend or a list of any of them on for both sides

• GPSIES: workaround for sporadic bug in editTrack

• Track.clone() does not pass id_in_backend anymore

• Backend.scan() tries to keep known tracks

• Backend.diff() now compares all attributes

• new: Track.identifier() and Backend.identifier() and use them for better output in gpxdo

• new: gpxdo set for setting/clearing any attributes

• Track.add_keyword(): given a duplicate, silently ignore it

• gpxdo kw now accepts a list of comma separated keywords

• gpxdo: filter by keywords: –only-kw

• gpxdo –last-date now includes that date

• gpxdo –first-date and –last-date now also accept YYYY-MM and YYYY

• gpxdo –date is new: specific date YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD

• gpxdo –set –id-from-title is new

• gpxdo –set –id-from-time is new

• gpxdo –similar

• new: Track.similarity(other)

• gpxity now uses the python logging module for all output

• gpxdo: replace –debug and –verbose by –loglevel

• new backend Mailer

• new: class Lifetrack

• new: bin/gpxity_server. This is unfinished work, it is intended as a server for lifetracking.

1.2.6 release 2018-06-05

• utility for testing installation in a docker container

• version number is not in the source anymore, setup.py creates version.py

1.2.2 release 2018-04-25

• gpxdo ls –long is no longer ignored

• explicitly enforce utf-8 when reading or writing .gpx files

• improve setup.py

• require gpxpy 1.2.0

1.2.1 release 2018-04-17

• Backend has a new arg “timeout”

• README has a link to readthedocs

• Auth: added an example

• Backend.sync_from is gone, there are now Track.merge() and Backend.merge()

• diverse fixes for gpxdo

• Track.what is now always in internal format

• Simplify specific backend code by moving more code into the general Backend class

• Track.dirty is gone, there now is Track.rewrite()

• Backend: renamed save() to add()

• Track.identifier is new, to be used by gpxdo

• Track.length is the track length

• gpxdo ls has many more options, including –sort

• gpxdo rm has a new option –dry-run

1.2.0 release 2018-04-09

• New backend GPSIES for www.gpsies.com

• New: Command line utility “gpxdo” exposing commands for listing, copying,

  merging, removing, editing, fixing, comparing

• New class BackendDiff

• Backend: rename copy_all_from to sync_from and add parameters

• hide class Authenticate from public API

• Define assumption about points having to be ordered by time

• Do not use slow GPX.get_time_bounds()

• Track.last_time now is a property

• MMT: Map Track.keywords to MMT tags

• Track.keywords now returns them sorted

• MMT: login only once per backend instance

• Make list(Track) sortable (by title)

• New: Track.adjust_time()

• Track: Improve __str__ and __repr__

• Backend can now be used as an iterable

• New class BackendDiff

• MMT now supports life tracking

• New generator Track.segments()

• Simplify usage of auth.conf

• fix illegal XML generated by gpxy for GPX 1.1

• New: Backend.match implements client-side filtering

• New: BackendException

• New: Map values for “what” between different backends

• New: Backend.legal_whats shows the values for “what” supported by a backend

1.1.2 release 2017-03-4

• a first example

• simplify authentication

• simplify Backend API

• len(backend) is the number of tracks

• Allow backend[x] and x in backend

• hide Backend.tracks, directly add needed methods to Backend

• MMT: Download track sometimes did not download the entire track

• bin/test and bin/coverage now accept test method names (without test_ prefix)

• Directory: removes dead links without raising an exception

• Track.description never returns None

• Track: Parsing illegal GPX XML now prints a more helpful error message

• Track.clone() first does load_full

• Track(gpx=gpx) now handles keywords correctly

• Backend.save() now accepts ident=str

• Directory tries not to use illegal file names for symlinks

1.1.1 released 2017-02-26

• Added Changelog

1.1.0 released 2017-02-26

• New backend ServerDirectory

1.0.1 released 2017-02-25

• Documentation fixes

1.0.0 released 2017-02-25

• Initial version supporting backends Directory and MMT