Anyone who regularly opens a GPS track in QGIS or works on a local map often wants to have the map displayed in the UTM system. To do this, you first had to find out the correct UTM zone and search for it in the corresponding dialogue box. The first plugin I wrote for QGIS … Continue reading “Assign the correct UTM zone to a project in QGIS with one click”
How to import all runkeeper GPS tracks (GPX files) into a single GeoDataFrame, and analyse and map them using python
How to explore a single GPS track (GPX file) with python
How to assign elevation to a GPX file? With Python this is easy thanks to elevation, geopandas, rasterio and SRTM data.
How to plot a simple map with a GPS track in Python and PyGMT using the Tour du Mont Blanc as an example.
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