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Following on from the excellent advice given by Graculus I have spent some time familiarising myself with Pocket Queries. Later this year i will be travelling to Canada visiting Vancouver, Banff and Calgary and using Pocket Queries i have identified all the quick wins no more than >100m off the route i will be taking. I have spent some time drilling the list down to just those caches i want to visit based on location and proximity to points of interest or photographic opportunities. What i would now like to be able to do edit the GPX file to remove the caches i will not be visiting.

 

I appreciate my question is very subjective but what is the best GPX editor available for MAC to remove entries from a GPX file.

 

Many thanks :D

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I was going to say GSAK is ideal for this until I read the word MAC.... GSAK isn't supported on the MAC OS but can run in 'virtual' situations. Have a look at this post in the GSAK FAQ. I'm sure other MAC users will come along soon. Might be worth your while posting in the main technology forum for a larger audience to help you.

 

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Following on from the excellent advice given by Graculus I have spent some time familiarising myself with Pocket Queries. Later this year i will be travelling to Canada visiting Vancouver, Banff and Calgary and using Pocket Queries i have identified all the quick wins no more than >100m off the route i will be taking. I have spent some time drilling the list down to just those caches i want to visit based on location and proximity to points of interest or photographic opportunities. What i would now like to be able to do edit the GPX file to remove the caches i will not be visiting.

 

I appreciate my question is very subjective but what is the best GPX editor available for MAC to remove entries from a GPX file.

 

Many thanks :D

 

GPX files are just text, so you can edit them with any regular text editor, you just need to inspect the file to work out where the tags start & end. Having said that if it's a HUGE file and you want to make many changes then doing it in a text editor might be a bit of a strain.

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GPX files are just text, so you can edit them with any regular text editor, you just need to inspect the file to work out where the tags start & end. Having said that if it's a HUGE file and you want to make many changes then doing it in a text editor might be a bit of a strain.

They are text, but it's not necessarily easy reading.

 

They are XML files, if you can get an XML reader it might be slightly better than a normal text editor.

 

But GPX files are really just a transport mechanism, and not intended for direct use. Does the Mac have some sort of Windows virtual environment so you can run GASK? Is there no MAC equivalent of GSAK? I just has a quick Google and it came up with MacCaching, but I don't know anything about it.

 

There has to be a proper way to do it - while there are fewer Macs than PCs there must be enough to support at least one app.

 

Rgds, Andy

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