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This is a simple Python library for parsing and manipulating GPX files. GPX is an XML based format for GPS tracks.
You can see it in action on my online GPS track editor and organizer.
There is also a Golang port of gpxpy: gpxgo.
See also srtm.py if your track lacks elevation data.
import gpxpy
import gpxpy.gpx
# Parsing an existing file:
# -------------------------
gpx_file = open('test_files/cerknicko-jezero.gpx', 'r')
gpx = gpxpy.parse(gpx_file)
for track in gpx.tracks:
for segment in track.segments:
for point in segment.points:
print(f'Point at ({point.latitude},{point.longitude}) -> {point.elevation}')
for waypoint in gpx.waypoints:
print(f'waypoint {waypoint.name} -> ({waypoint.latitude},{waypoint.longitude})')
for route in gpx.routes:
print('Route:')
for point in route.points:
print(f'Point at ({point.latitude},{point.longitude}) -> {point.elevtion}')
# There are many more utility methods and functions:
# You can manipulate/add/remove tracks, segments, points, waypoints and routes and
# get the GPX XML file from the resulting object:
print('GPX:', gpx.to_xml())
# Creating a new file:
# --------------------
gpx = gpxpy.gpx.GPX()
# Create first track in our GPX:
gpx_track = gpxpy.gpx.GPXTrack()
gpx.tracks.append(gpx_track)
# Create first segment in our GPX track:
gpx_segment = gpxpy.gpx.GPXTrackSegment()
gpx_track.segments.append(gpx_segment)
# Create points:
gpx_segment.points.append(gpxpy.gpx.GPXTrackPoint(2.1234, 5.1234, elevation=1234))
gpx_segment.points.append(gpxpy.gpx.GPXTrackPoint(2.1235, 5.1235, elevation=1235))
gpx_segment.points.append(gpxpy.gpx.GPXTrackPoint(2.1236, 5.1236, elevation=1236))
# You can add routes and waypoints, too...
print('Created GPX:', gpx.to_xml())
gpx.py can parse and generate GPX 1.0 and 1.1 files. The generated file will always be a valid XML document, but it may not be (strictly speaking) a valid GPX document. For example, if you set gpx.email to "my.email AT mail.com" the generated GPX tag won't confirm to the regex pattern. And the file won't be valid. Most applications will ignore such errors, but... Be aware of this!
Be aware that the gpxpy object model is not 100% equivalent with the underlying GPX XML file schema. That's because the library object model works with both GPX 1.0 and 1.1.
For example, GPX 1.0 specified a speed
attribute for every track point, but that was removed in GPX 1.1. If you parse GPX 1.0 and serialize back with gpx.to_xml()
everything will work fine. But if you have a GPX 1.1 object, changes in the speed
attribute will be lost after gpx.to_xml()
. If you want to force using 1.0, you can gpx.to_xml(version="1.0")
. Another possibility is to use extensions
to save the speed in GPX 1.1.
gpx.py preserves GPX extensions. They are stored as ElementTree DOM objects. Extensions are part of GPX 1.1, and will be ignored when serializing a GPX object in a GPX 1.0 file.
If lxml is available, then it will be used for XML parsing, otherwise minidom is used. Lxml is 2-3 times faster so, if you can choose -- use it.
The GPX version is automatically determined when parsing by reading the version attribute in the gpx node. If this attribute is not present then the version is assumed to be 1.0. A specific version can be forced by setting the version
parameter in the parse function. Possible values for the 'version' parameter are 1.0
, 1.1
and None
.
Gpxpy is a GPX parser and by using it you have access to all the data from the original GPX file. The additional methods to calculate stats have some additional heuristics to remove common GPS errors. For example, to calculate max_speed
it removes the top 5%
of speeds and points with nonstandard distance (those are usually GPS errors).
"Raw" max speed can be calculated with:
moving_data = gpx.get_moving_data(raw=True)
Branches:
master
contains the code of the latest releasedev
branch is where code for the next release should go.Send your pull request against dev
, not master
!
Before sending a pull request -- check that all tests are OK. Run all the static typing checks and unit tests with:
$ make mypy-and-tests
Run a single test with:
$ python3 -m unittest test.GPXTests.test_haversine_and_nonhaversine
Gpxpy runs only with python 3.6+. The code must have type hints and must pass all the mypy checks.
Additional command-line tools for GPX files can be downloaded here https://github.com/tkrajina/gpx-cmd-tools or installed with:
pip install gpx-cmd-tools
GPX.py is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
FAQs
GPX file parser and GPS track manipulation library
We found that gpxpy demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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