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2011-03-29 06:39:17 - Race GPX Files
I will post a gpx file for each race, here and on the soltools blog - here.

Each file will include marks for the start and finish line (both ends plus a mid point) and all course marks/waypoints, and a route defining the sctual course.

I will endevour to post them within 24 hours of race announcement.

Edit: just realised this is posted in wrond board - can someone please move to the races forum? perhaps sticky it to??

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2011-03-29 06:40:09 - IMOCA Leg 6
IMOCA Global Challenge Leg 6

PLEASE DONT USE THIS FILE! SEE BELOW FOR CORRECT VERSION

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2011-03-29 10:53:00 - Re: Race GPX Files
AGage - what is a gpx file please?I just tried to open it from the Forum link and it wouldn't open. It is not a file necessary for SOL and by making a totally new thread for whatever this is is likely to confuse newbies to SOL, just as it is confusing for me!!

If this is a file just for use with your software then please may I suggest that you make a link to it (and all the others to come) on your own server/computer and let folks access it through your Toolkit?

Just as brainaid's Toolbox is accessible totally off-SOL, so yours should be too :-)

Your tools/software aren't easily findable at the moment so rather than have several threads/posts, which is both inappropriate and confusing, please would you bring all your links etc into one thread which we can then make a sticky at the top of this forum for a while so folks can get used to looking for and using it.

The other advantage of having just one "source" for your software is we could add a link to it via the Links Tab here on the homepage as has been done with other super-helpful info.

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2011-03-29 12:39:15 - Re: Race GPX Files
GPX is for GPS Exchange Format and is supported by many GPS and 3D viewers. Google Earth can import and display those files.
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2011-03-29 13:38:05 - Re: Race GPX Files
AG... I tried to open the .gpx through GE and it still would not happen. What does a GPX file show? I could not even find it in the folder it was supposedly "saved" to (even when I went to that folder from GE directly). Weird.
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2011-03-29 16:39:00 - Re: Race GPX Files
Yep, sorry SP I posted the wrong file above, BWR also saves its races in gpx and I mistakenly uploaded that *oops*.

RC, it is just the race in a very common xml format for navigational software, nothing to do with my own tools which aren't even ready to be made public yet, or I would have done exactly as you say. Besides, mine dont make use of any data not available directly from SOL. I did first post it on the blog, but as it is just a file containing the course waypoints i decided maybe some would appreciate them on this forum to.
I will not post future races here, but they will be available from the blog page.

Sorry for those who downloaded and couldnt use it, this one is pure GPX:


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2011-03-29 16:48:07 - Re: Race GPX Files
RainbowChaser said @ 2011-03-29 10:53:00:
The other advantage of having just one "source" for your software is we could add a link to it via the Links Tab here on the homepage as has been done with other super-helpful info.
This is exactly why I created the wordpress blog - although it wasnt to get a link here on sailonline ;-) but that would be nice... a few more benefits of making the blog too - comments etc, but primarily just a single location for everything.
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2011-03-29 18:30:13 - Re: Race GPX Files
AGage - do you still want this thread moved to Races Forum? If so I can do that.

Are you happy with all the tools available via your blog? If so,I will add a link to it under the Links "link" (you know what I mean) in the blue banner across the Homepage and Forum pages.
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2011-03-30 03:56:49 - Re: Race GPX Files
Yep, a link would be good thanks...

I will just make these gpx files available from there if you like, perhaps this thread will just serve as a notice to SOLers they are available and where... :-)

Sorry if I caused any problems posting this here...
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