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# gpx_reduce_light
-* gpx_reduce.py is a version of the [original gpx_reduce][1] with no dependencies.
+* gpx_reduce.py is a modified version of the [original gpx_reduce][1] with no dependencies.
- The [original version][1] depends on scipy, lxml, numpy and pylab.
- Because the program only does some basic linear algebra, all these dependencies can be easily removed.
+ The original depends on *scipy, lxml, numpy* and *pylab* (which are heavy requirements).
+ However, these dependencies can be easily removed, because the program only does basic linear
+ algebra.
This has two benefits:
1. easy installation (nothing needed apart from python)
- 2. the program is considerably faster than the original.
- This is because the original uses a numpy array for each trackpoint which
- incurs a large overhead for creating and for all subsequent little computations.
+ 2. the program is considerably faster than the original.
+
+ A stand alone windows executable (win32, 3 Mb) can be downloaded from <https://wim.vree.org/sporen/gpx.html>
- The one disadvantage of removing all depecencies is that the plot option had to be removed.
- Usage example:
+ Usage example (see [original][1] for a better description):
> gpx_reduce.py -d 2 -t 30 your_track.gpx
+ The disadvantage of removing all dependencies is that the plot option had to be removed.
I made a separate python script with one dependency for plotting tracks:
-* gpx_plot.py, a script to plot one or more tracks with "gnuplot".
+* gpx_plot.py, a script to plot one or more tracks with [gnuplot][3].
- Gnuplot has to be installed and the path to the binary has to be changed in the code
- to reflect your installation:
-
- gnuPlotCmd = 'path/to/gnuplot'
+ Gnuplot has to be installed and if the path to the gnuplot executable is not */usr/bin/gnuplot*
+ you have to specify the path with the command line option *-g /path/to/gnuplot*
Usage example that compares a reduced track with the original:
> gpx_plot.py your_track.gpx your_track_reduced.gpx
+
+ and with the -g option:
-[1]: https://github.com/Alezy80/gpx_reduce/
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+ > gpx_plot.py -g /path/to/gnuplot your_track.gpx your_track_reduced.gpx
+
+ A stand alone windows executable (win32, 3 Mb) can be downloaded from <https://wim.vree.org/sporen/gpx.html>
+ (does not include [gnuplot][3])
+
+[1]: https://github.com/Alezy80/gpx_reduce/
+[3]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/