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  • Draw proposed hike track on Android topographical map (export as GPX)

    From Andy Burnelli@spam@nospam.com to alt.comp.os.windows-10,sci.geo.satellite-nav on Mon Jul 18 08:06:00 2022
    From Newsgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav

    Do you know of Android freeware that allows you to manually draw a proposed hiking track onto a topographical geoPDF map?
    a. It would need to work off of a topographical map
    b. It would need to export the results as a GPX file.
    c. An added bonus is exporting the entire custom map section.

    Currently I draw the desired hiking track using a web-based online mapping tool, exporting the track as a GPX file directly onto the Android phone.
    <https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.80547,-98.39355&z=5&b=mbt>

    That works - and it can output the custom map section in addition to a
    separate GPX track file; but it would be nice to have a freeware track
    drawing tool which didn't require the Internet, for privacy purposes.
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  • From Andy Burnelli@spam@nospam.com to alt.comp.os.windows-10,sci.geo.satellite-nav on Mon Jul 18 08:10:22 2022
    From Newsgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav

    Andy Burnelli wrote:

    Do you know of Android freeware that allows you to manually draw a proposed hiking track onto a topographical geoPDF map

    Drat. Sorry. That was meant for Android, not Windows!
    Mea culpa.
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  • From Andy Burnelli@spam@nospam.com to comp.mobile.android,sci.geo.satellite-nav on Mon Jul 18 08:11:33 2022
    From Newsgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav

    Do you know of Android freeware that allows you to manually draw a proposed hiking track onto a topographical geoPDF map?
    a. It would need to work off of a topographical map
    b. It would need to export the results as a GPX file.
    c. An added bonus is exporting the entire custom map section.

    Currently I draw the desired hiking track using a web-based online mapping tool, exporting the track as a GPX file directly onto the Android phone.
    <https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.80547,-98.39355&z=5&b=mbt>

    That works - and it can output the custom map section in addition to a
    separate GPX track file; but it would be nice to have a freeware track
    drawing tool which didn't require the Internet, for privacy purposes.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2