Creating a GPX file of benches in a certain area to avoid duplicate recording

[jrbray1]

When I go out benching, I don't want to use the full web-gui on my phone, but would like to see what benches have already been recorded. Would it be possible to allow a user to chose an area on a map (either using a bounding box or a radius) and get a GPX file with the co-ordinates of the benches. Only the text descriptions would be needed. I could then put that on my mapping app, and see at a glance whether a bench needed to be recorded.

I see you have a API call to get benches by area, but its hard-wired 20 item limit makes it unworkable for even a day's wandering.

[edent]

I've updated the API to take a results parameter.

https://openbenches.org/api/v1.0/data.json/?latitude=51.234&longitude=-1.234&radius=20&format=raw&results=100

That will get you as many results as you want within a radius.

I'm unfamiliar with how GPX works - but I can add it. Would you just like every bench added as a waypoint?

[jrbray1]

Thanks for doing that. I'm no expert on GPX, but using https://l-36.com/waypoints.php it seems a minimal GPX with waypoints and not tracks that works fine in OSMAnd on my phone is:

<gpx version="1.1" creator="L-36.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd" > Bench 1 Waypoint Bench 2 Waypoint Bench 3 Waypoint Bench 4 Waypoint Bench 5 Waypoint

Perhaps you could output as that?

[jrbray1]

Bother

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <gpx version="1.1" creator="L-36.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd" > <wpt lat="51" lon="0"> <name>Bench 1</name> <sym>Waypoint</sym> </wpt> <wpt lat="51.1" lon="0.1"> <name>Bench 2</name> <sym>Waypoint</sym> </wpt> <wpt lat="51.2" lon="0.2"> <name>Bench 3</name> <sym>Waypoint</sym> </wpt> <wpt lat="51.3" lon="0.3"> <name>Bench 4</name> <sym>Waypoint</sym> </wpt> <wpt lat="51.4" lon="0.4"> <name>Bench 5</name> <sym>Waypoint</sym> </wpt> </gpx>

[jrbray1]

Bother bother. If you go to the site you can create a file and see where the line breaks are :-)

[edent]

Barely two years later and GPX now works.

https://openbenches.org/api/nearest/gpx/?latitude=52.6&longitude=1.24&distance=20

I tried it on https://gpx.studio/ and everything seems to pop up as planned.

Let me know if you need any extra bits adding to it.

[jrbray1]

I had a quick go, and it looks very good. I'll try it when I next go benching

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