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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: xenduro on January 26, 2014, 04:19:58 PM

Title: state border outlines in gpx format(any format)
Post by: xenduro on January 26, 2014, 04:19:58 PM
anyone have them? know where i can find them

i attached 3 i found some place :(

AZ NV UT

Title: Re: state border outlines in gpx format(any format)
Post by: Boyd on January 27, 2014, 05:23:37 AM
A simple Google search for "US states shapefile" brings up a number of free sources. There are various software packages that can convert this to .gpx if needed.
Title: Re: state border outlines in gpx format(any format)
Post by: xenduro on January 27, 2014, 12:02:30 PM
I tried a lot of searches, but would never have  tried shapefiles 

I got a perfect GE (kml,kmz) file that's loads perfect to GE

see attachment(jpg file   the other is the GE file

but saving a 'sub region' as kml/kmz and loading to expertgps did not work

I can use gpsbabel, but I have no idear what to try with it?

any more ideas/help?
I am looking for a track(s) to load(or some thing I can convert to tracks)

tks greg R ???
Title: Re: state border outlines in gpx format(any format)
Post by: Seldom on January 27, 2014, 03:50:59 PM
Try input "Google Earth (Keyhole) Markup Languqge" (KML)
output "GPX XML"  You may need to unzip a KMZ file.
Title: Re: state border outlines in gpx format(any format)
Post by: xenduro on January 27, 2014, 05:21:50 PM
ok  thats what i would guess, but their is hardly any info in the file, will try , it would have to be a real smart conversion, not just reformatting the data

the sub-region file is only 115 lines long???

this is what came out(nothing) loaded up, but nothing in it, the kmz/l has strange tytpes in it

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx
  version="1.0"
  creator="GPSBabel - htt://xww.gpsbabel.org"
  xmlns:xsi="htt://xww.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="htt://xww.topografix.com/GPX/1/0"
  xsi:schemaLocation="htt://xww.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 htt://xww.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd">
<time>2014-01-28T01:19:01Z</time>
</gpx>