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Dima Kogan: Simple gpx export from ridewithgps

The Tour de Los Padres is coming! The race organizer post the route on
ridewithgps
. This works, but has convoluted interfaces for people not wanting to
use their service. I just wrote a simple script to export their data into a
plain .gpx file, including all the waypoints. Their exporter omits those.

The gpx-from-ridewithgps.py script:

#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import json

def quote_xml(s):
    return s.replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;").replace(">", "&gt;")

print("Reading stdin", file=sys.stderr)

data = json.load(sys.stdin)

print(r"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx version="1.1" creator="gpx-from-ridewithgps.py" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1">""")

for item in data["extras"]:
    if item["type"] != "point_of_interest":
        continue
    poi = item["point_of_interest"]
    print(f'  <wpt lat="{poi["lat"]}" lon="{poi["lng"]}">')
    print(f'    <name>{quote_xml(poi["name"])}</name>')

    desc = poi.get("description","")
    if len(desc):
        print(f'    <desc>{quote_xml(desc)}</desc>')
    print(f'  </wpt>')

print("  <trk><trkseg>")
for pt in data.get("route", {}).get("track_points", []):
    print(f'    <trkpt lat="{pt["y"]}" lon="{pt["x"]}"><ele>{pt["e"]}</ele></trkpt>')
print("  </trkseg></trk>")

print("</gpx>")

You invoke it by downloading the route and feeding it into the script:

curl -s https://ridewithgps.com/routes/54493422.json | ./ridewithgps-to-gpx.py > out.gpx

Note that the route number 54493422 is in the url above. I uploaded this to
caltopo for analysis, and easy downloading by others:

https://caltopo.com/m/DB6HBQ1

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