February 16, 2024
Getting a GPS track onto a web page
This is my cookbook of how I get this done, and is unlikely to be of
use to anyone else, but you never know.
I do this on my linux desktop with a variety of software installed,
including some that I wrote myself.
- Use a USB cable and pull the "fit" file off of my Garmin 66i
- Launch my gtopo program
- g66i '2024-02-15 15.31.06.fit'
- Press "PrtScn" on my keyboard to take a screen shot
- save this to "crosses.png" or some such.
- use "shotwell crosses.png" and crop the screenshot
- save this to "crosses2.png" or some such.
- resize 800 crosses2.png crosses3.png
- copy crosses3.png to the web server
The nasty business of using a USB cable to pull files off the
Garmin 66i is covered elsewhere.
For some reason, Shotwell seems to "magnify" the image, saving
it as about 1005 pixels wide, so I resize it to 800 pixels wide.
The "resize" command is my own script that uses "convert" from
image-magic to resize the image.
Have any comments? Questions?
Drop me a line!
Tom's backpacking pages / tom@mmto.org