GoPal GPS track log (.trk) (gopal)
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## GoPal GPS track log (.trk) (gopal)

This format can...

- read and write tracks

This format has the following options: date, maxspeed, minspeed, clean .

The gopal format is a track format written by the GoPal Navigation program.

The format of the file itself is quite simple:

            Fileformat GoPal
            TICK;   TIME UTC; LONG;    LAT;       HEIGHT; SPEED km/h;  FIX; HDOP;     SAT
            3801444, 080558, 2.944362, 43.262117, 295.28, 0.12964, 2, 2.900000, 3

Filenames are automatically created by the device as follows:

            trackYYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.trk

and/or, depending on software version and settings:

    		A_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.trk

with HHMMSS local time (not UTC!)

The file format lacks the correct date value for each trackpoint, so it has to be computed starting from the date given in the filename. To handle files without a parsable date in the name, the command line option 'date' is provided.

Conversions from gopal into any other format are a bit lossy concerning the first field of each line wich looks like an useless time tick value and is simply discarded while reading. If written, there will be a time_t value from the current (computed) timestamp.

Somehwere around Gopal 4.8 or 5.0, Electrobit added three more fields to the end of this format. They are, in order, date (which eliminates most of the silliness above), an unknonw field, and a bearing. GPSBabel now reads the date and ignores the other two. We don't yet write these three fields for compatibility with earlier versions.

Filtering out invalid data points is handled by the options 'clean', 'minspeed' and 'maxspeed'. For each datapoint the speed needed to come the from the last valid point is calculated and compared with the limits. Thus one cat easily discard unreliable points.

### `date` option

Complete date-free tracks with given date (YYYYMMDD)..

This option is useful if you have tracks from Gopal that have been renamed.

### `maxspeed` option

The maximum speed (km/h) traveling from waypoint to waypoint..

This is useful for removing wildly erroneous data from your recorded track.

### `minspeed` option

The minimum speed (km/h) traveling from waypoint to waypoint. Set &gt;0 to remove duplicate waypoints.

If this is greater than zero, duplicate waypoints will be removed.

### `clean` option

Cleanup common errors in trackdata.

Specifying the `clean` flag makes the Gopal reader pass over the data and discard data that is probably incorrect such as the longitude and latitude of "0".

If you happen to be a boater or pilot off the south short of Ghana, you may disagree that coordinates of "0, 0" are bad.

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