Track Editing
Editing a track (e.g. on the website, from an external unit) requires another tool (e.g. QGIS). Some of these tools are overkill for doing a simple editing of a track or tracks. I'd like to be able to upload my tracks to Gaia and be able to edit them on the website. This would greatly streamline the workflow GPSing hikes.
Editing a track (e.g. deleting/moving data points) is aided greatly by the maps that Gaia provides. Also, being able to split and combine tracks would be good.
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Robyn, that is a real clunky solution. I continue to use MayMyRun to collect data and I really appreciate its track editing features in the app. After years of using tracking apps, I STILL forget to turn off tracking when I get back to my car. I then add a mile or two or three of data at freeway speeds to my track. It's REAL annoying that you don't have a simple way to truncate a track and adjust the time on the track. MapMyRun allows that simple truncation in their app.
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I find Gaia's response to these issues unacceptable - one should be able to modify tracks as requested from within the phone app. One simple fix might to simply be able to break the track at some selected point and save both parts. The trim function could then be used on each part. The scenario mentioned when the user forgets to stop tracking at the end of the hike is easily resolved by truncating the track, but if you go on another hike before you stop the tracking, then you have two hikes on one track. Yes, you can download the track from the cloud, edit using a third-party software, re-upload the two parts, but that's inconvenient to do, especially if you're on a trip and not at your computer.
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Goodmorning everyone. GaiaGPS is a great software. However, the most important part is missing, that is the possibility to edit the tracks completely. And this even after creating the track. It is not normal that you have to use a different tool to edit the tracks. We (all) ask for the creation of a tool for editing the tracks.
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+1 for track and route trimming/editing on the web app, but also allow changing direction. Another edit feature would be to force an imported track which has no elevation data to "clamp to ground" based on topographical data. Some tracks I've imported show no elevation profile, even though they are in the mountains.
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This is still needed, and I hope the Gaia team has seen how often this feature request continues to resurface. It's been super disappointing to see no real desire to move on this. As I mentioned a year ago, I've had the app crash while tracking multiple times, not realizing it until many miles have gone by, which essentially renders tracking useless.
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I enter this thread because the situation is really getting tough. GaiaGPS costs a lot, but user requests are not listened to. For two years, many people have been asking for the possibility of editing tracks. Why are (paying) users not being listened to? What is the GaiaGPS road map? -
Please Gaia, I would love to see track editing become a feature as it is so useful and practical! I would love to be able to edit the path of my tracks much the same way that you can edit the path of a route by moving the pins. I often make tracks in the bush while working so that when my coworkers work in the area, they will be able to use my tracks. The problem is that sometimes I end up backtracking while making a track (e.g. running into a dead end, coming up against obstacles), and I would like to be able to remove that portion of the track where I backtracked so that others using my tracks won't follow the backtracking portion.
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In addition to trimming, if you need to edit some parts of the track (move, add or delete points) you can try https://gpxstudio.github.io it is a free online GPS track editor.
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Is there the capability to Merge tracks? For example this week I was on an out-and-back trip and at some point, GAIA stopped recording (IOS), I didn't realize it for about a mile and a half when I reached my turnaround point. I restarted GAIA and ended up with 2 tracks. I was hoping there'd be a simple solution (similar to cropping a track) that would allow you to add two tracks together (or append a track). If I could merge the tracks on GAIA, then filling in the missing track points using GPX Editor would "seem" to be a breeze.
Note: I do have GPX Editor on my Mac but find it cumbersome and have a lot of trouble getting it to combine tracks or track segments, and subsequently export as a single GPX file (an issue I am submitting to GPX Editor support)
Thanks,
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+1,000 for track/route split and merge features. AlpineQuest GPS app on Android even lets you do this on a mobile device, it should be relatively trivial to implement on the website version. Caltopo has it on their web version. The only reason I'm currently paying for Gaia is the ability to plan trips and then edit them in an integrated tool (the gaia website). I shouldn't have to use a second tool for such basic features.
Please add trace & route splitting and merging features to gaiagps.com. thank you!
similar/related requests:
https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360049415733-ability-to-split-a-route
https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047891334-split-route-function
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Just tried this app for the first time on a long hike. Really impressed, except for one section that went completely wonky and probably added a km out more to our track. Firstly, if you have chosen hiking as the Activity, the app should ignore GPS faults that make you travel more than say, 20km/h. Or you could make it an option to turn that on. The fact done use it for aeroplane travel is not an excuse to fix that. What is it predominantly used for?
Not being able to edit the track in the app or at least on the website also sucks big time. Surely this could be fixed by adding waypoints that could turn be joined up.
The first person posted about this 2 years ago from what I can see. Still no interest in fixing it. Disappointed in my purchase.
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Interesting discussion on an issue which apparently has not been successfully resolved. But my recent issue wasn't answered:
In iOS, I cannot select a single track. When I press or touch my finger on the track, it isn't selected, like it used to. Is there some setting which "locks" the screen? I have no problem doing this on the web application, except that I can't trim the track there.
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I see that even though I was signed in, help.gaiagps.com still doesn't recognize that until I click "Sign in", and then is says I already am! Identified as a flaw years ago.
I use GPX editor. Not great, and not convenient, and not really kept up to date, but it does what Gaia does not...simple track editing. I had not wanted to become a "track editor" person, but I quickly learned how to edit a gpx file, and what to include to get them to run. Now I use templates, run the tracks through GPX Editor, then a beautifier https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=html+formatter+online&ia=answer, and then patch portions of that into my template.
All this, and more missing fundamentals, are why I have been thinking for the past year that I will not renew my subscription. I can see that the Gaia crew is busy paying attention to some other business interests, but not fundamental use issues. It is a constant source of surprise that I find my DeLorme program from 2010 is actually easier to use and much more competent.
Those criticisms aside, I can see that there are improvements over time in the product. Unfortunately, more to do with glitz and selling to potential new customers than addressing existing customer interests. The recent shout out about Outside Magazine is a prime example. I have visited it on and off since the 1970s, and still think of it as the Land's End, yuppy, gossip rag of the outdoor set, so don't pay it attention these days. Not coming down on those who find it useful and entertaining, just not my style. So the fact that Gaia spent any time at all on coordinating with them is just so much hot air, in light of the glaring shortcomings of Gaia today, shortcomings that have not been addressed for years, despite all the discussions. I no longer recommend it to anyone in discussions, and I don't use it as much as I thought I would.
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+1000 for route editing. I can edit routes I have created in Gaia... so WHY can't I edit routes I've imported... surely it's harder to block us from editing than to allow us to use something which is already in Gaia?
Also, it is, indeed, disappointing to see no response from Gaia on something which so many users have been asking for over several years. I really like Gaia, but if someone asks me for my opinion of the platform, my recommendation comes with a big asterisk.
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I just edited a track where I forgot to turn on GaiaGPS until I had gone a mile. Here are the steps I figured out:
- Export GPX data from GaiaGPS
- You need to modify the file name exported by GaiaGPS to be able import it to the "GPX Editor" app on Mac (this is a GREAT app!). Had to erase the ".xml" extension from the "foothills-park-boronda-lake-vista-hill-palo-alto.gpx.xml" leaving "foothills-park-boronda-lake-vista-hill-palo-alto.gpx." This imported properly to GPX Editor.
- Create a second track in GPX Editor.
- Add new points to the second track. This is fast and easy -- Command-click on the map.
- Add an estimated initial departure time and a final time to the second track. I set the final time on the new second track is the same as the departure time on the original (incomplete) track.
- Have GPX fill in missing times for the new track points based on the added start and end times you added.
- Merge the two tracks into one.
- Export as revised GPX file.
- Import the new GPX file into web app http://www.gpsvisualizer.com to add missing elevation data on the new track points.
- Export GPX file from GPSVisualizer web app.
- Import the final GPX file into GaiaGPS. Imported GPX files create a new folder with the same name as the track.
- Rename your original track. I added "ORIG" to the original track.
- Move the new track in GaiaGPS from the new folder into my your desired destination folder.
- Compare the original (partial) track and the new (complete) tracks. They should match except the new track will have the missing data.
- Delete the original (partial) track.
Moral of the story. Learn to turn on tracking when you leave at the trailhead and turn tracking off when you get back to the trailhead. Whew.
I hope somebody else finds this recipe useful.
This recipe should also work for deleting points at the end of a track where you forgot to turn off tracking.
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> You need to modify the file name exported by GaiaGPS to be able import it to the "GPX Editor" app on Mac (this is a GREAT app!). Had to erase the ".xml" extension from the "foothills-park-boronda-lake-vista-hill-palo-alto.gpx.xml" leaving "foothills-park-boronda-lake-vista-hill-palo-alto.gpx."
Weird, I'm also post-processing my Gaia GPS tracks with 'GPX Editor' on the Mac (indeed a GREAT app!), but I never had to rename a file. When I export the track under 'Data/GPX' from my track folder on gaiagps.com my browser downloads the gpx file with a '.gpx' extension, and I can load this directly into the app.
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