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GPX flight plan import

11/19/2017 11:12 AM

Adrian

Joined: 12/15/2014

Posts: 70

GPX flight plan import

Is there a reference/list for which of the XML elements in a GPX flight plan are used by iFly? I'm going to write an applet to convert some of my other flight plan formats to GPX for use with iFly, but I don't want to waste my time on elemnts that iFly is going to ignore.

11/19/2017 1:51 PM

Brian

Joined: 9/7/2011

Posts: 4453

Re: GPX flight plan import

Adrian wrote:

Is there a reference/list for which of the XML elements in a GPX flight plan are used by iFly? I'm going to write an applet to convert some of my other flight plan formats to GPX for use with iFly, but I don't want to waste my time on elemnts that iFly is going to ignore.

From a quick glance at the code, I see that we only use, for "wpt" elements:
1. name
2. type
3. lat / lon

I see there is an "ele" field too, that we currently don't use. I assume that is "elevation"? We could use that, but currently don't, since we implemented our GPX importer before we supported elevations.

Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer

11/19/2017 2:10 PM

Adrian

Joined: 12/15/2014

Posts: 70

Re: GPX flight plan import

Thanks Brian, that's what I needed.

Brian wrote: I see there is an "ele" field too, that we currently don't use. I assume that is "elevation"? We could use that, but currently don't, since we implemented our GPX importer before we supported elevations.

From the GPX schema, ele is "Elevation (in meters) of the point."

11/20/2017 7:45 AM

Adrian

Joined: 12/15/2014

Posts: 70

Re: GPX flight plan import

Another quick question, Brian. What are the waypoint types that iFly is expecting? I've tried several variations and none except 'airport' seem to be recognized.

11/20/2017 8:24 PM

Brian

Joined: 9/7/2011

Posts: 4453

Re: GPX flight plan import

Yeah, I think 'airport' is the only specialized type that we process. All other waypoints, currently, just translate to Lat/Lon.

Seems like we've got need for two upgrades here:
1. Process "ele" for Target Altitudes.
2. Process more 'types' (for fixes, navaids, etc).

Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer

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