[R-sig-Geo] read gpx file

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Marco Helbich wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> the readGPS function from the maptools package is able to read waypoints 
> from an 'attached GPS'. But what about reading gpx-fils, is there a 
> function available to import such data? the OGR vector formats are not 
> supporting it...

As you can see by looking at the code, the function is simply a wrapper 
for a system() call to gpsbabel. So there is no reason why the arguments 
could not be modified to tell gpsbabel to read a *.gpx file and write it 
to R - contributions welcome!

Roger

>
> best regards,
> Marco
>
> --
> Marco Helbich
> Institute for Urban and Regional Research,
> Austrian Academy of Sciences
> Postgasse 7/4/2, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
> mail: marco.helbich (at) oeaw.ac.at
>

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