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Visualizing GPS Data With QGIS

June 29, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ Leave a comment

This tutorial will teach you how to use QGIS to generate a map image from GPX track data.

Creating Song Lyrics Graphs

June 13, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ Leave a comment

A tutorial for generating directed graphs of song lyrics.

Mapping GPS Data in uMap

Screenshot of uMap with GPX data over the Positron map layer
May 5, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ Leave a comment

uMap is a website which allows you to import GPX data and overlay it on an OpenStreetMap layer. This tutorial will teach you how to view GPX-formatted GPS data in uMap.

Mapping GPS Data in Google Earth

Screenshot of Google Earth Pro
May 4, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ Leave a comment

Google Earth is a map viewer that provides an easy way to view GPS data files. This tutorial will teach you how to view GPX-formatted GPS data in Google Earth.

Logging GPS Tracks With iOS and MyTracks

May 3, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ 2 Comments

This tutorial will teach you how to use an iOS device to log GPS data and export it to a GPX file (which can then be used by mapping software).

Converting GPS Data Between GPX and KML

Screenshot of GPX input page on GPS Visualizer
May 2, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ 1 Comment

GPX (GPS Exchange format) and KML (Keyhole Markup Language) are both file types used to store GPS data. This tutorial will teach you how to convert between GPX and KML (in both directions) using GPS Visualizer.

Extracting GPX Files From a Garmin Automotive GPS

Photo of a Garmin DriveSmart 50 LMT GPS device, with a USB cable plugged into the back of it.
April 30, 2020August 20, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ 2 Comments

This tutorial will teach you how to record route data on a Garmin automotive GPS and extract it into a GPX file (which can then be used by mapping software).

Generating GPX and KML maps with Ruby on Rails

May 1, 2019August 21, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ Leave a comment

How to use Ruby to create GPX and KML map data files.

Creating Multiple Flash Messages in Ruby on Rails

April 5, 2017August 24, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ 2 Comments

On my Flight Historian application, a number of my pages make use of the flash and flash.now session messages capability for errors, warnings, successes, and informational messages. However, some of those pages needed to have multiple messages of the same type (e.g., multiple warnings), which flash didn’t allow me to do. To fix this, I wrote my own messages structure.

Parsing Boarding Pass Dates in Ruby

January 16, 2017September 24, 2020 ~ Paul Bogard ~ Leave a comment

Boarding pass barcodes contain data that’s useful for automatically filling in flight data, but their dates are particularly difficult to parse.

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