[R-sig-Geo] GPX and writeOGR

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:

> Dear listers,
>
> I am struggling with writeOGR (package rgdal) to make it write a gpx
> file. Among other trials, I am stuck with this (dbposWGS84 is a
> SpatialPointsDataFrame with three attribute fields):
>
> writeOGR(dbposWGS84,"dbposWGS84","waypoints","GPX") Error in
> writeOGR(dbposWGS84, "dbposWGS84", "waypoints", "GPX") : Creating Name
> field failed
>
>
> Any idea about what is going wrong ?

You need the dataset_options="GPX_USE_EXTENSIONS=YES" argument, see:

http://www.gdal.org/drv_gpx.html

Roger

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