XML, .gpx και αποθήκευση δεδομένων στο web

Μερικά σημερινά προσωπικά e-mail που μπορεί να αφορούν όσους ασχολούνται με την αρχειοθέτηση σπηλαίων και με τα GPS.
Φαίνετε ότι το .gpx format κερδίζει έδαφος... Νομίζω ότι υποστηρίζετε και από τον OZI.

Kostas Adamopoulos wrote:

Thanks Ben,

Are you aware of the "GPS Babel" software?
I thing is one of the best when you need to convert coordinates and GPS
data formats. In addittion I use Convers (which comes with Visual Topo) and
has attached and documentd the Convers API.dll

Kostas

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Ben Stevens wrote:

> Hi Kostas,
>
> The data is currentely stored in an XML format. It is basically a
> tagged format <cave> </cave> etc etc. It is actually the same format as
> is used by the .gpx universally gps interchange format but I didn't have
> everything sorted properely before we went out so it doesn't work at the
> moment as gpx. One of my jobs is to write something to convert it into
> the correct format but that shouldn't be difficult. Then you can load
> it over maps, google earth, onto you gps.
>
> Some of the caves don't have any GPS data on the web. This is because
> some points were taken in DMS, the rest in UTM. Currently I'm trying to
> decide how to convert the data to have something consistant (UTM is the
> GPS base format, some GPSs convert differentely from DMS to UTM etc
> etc).
>
> Any further questions don't hesitate to ask
>
> Ben
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> On 15/09/06, Kostas ADAMOPOULOS <kostas.adamopoulos@selas.org> wrote:

>> Ben hello!
>>
>> I'm member of SELAS club in Greece, I know Robert, Cattie, Robbie,
>> Henry, Jeff and a couple of other members of SUSS. I was indirectly
>> involved with this expedition in assisting the team. I would like to
>> thank you for this initial feedback. Of course I will be waiting the
>> final version of your report for our library and the local
>> authorities.
>>
>> The reason I'm writting to you is to know if you had used a specific
>> software to compiling your cave data. Is it a normal database or a
>> specific software that deals with similar staff e.g. GPS coordinates,
>> etc
>>
>> Thank you in advance for you time.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Kostas Adamopoulos

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Ben Stevens wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I've put the crete data up on the web at
>> > http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjamin.stevens/index.xml if anyone wants
>> to have a look. I'll update it as I enter the data. Photos will
>> come later.
>> >