What is csv2kml2 ?

csv2kml - This was my original script that I ran on the (now dead) Debian box to convert the csv data from my Qstarz Q1000 GPS data logger, that I use to get GPX data to use with GPS Correlate to geotag my photos, and KML files to make ground tracks for Google Maps and Google Earth. Features include HDOP and distance filters, plus options to ignore stuff before second button press and after last button press.

Why trim from second button press to the last one? So that I can use the first button press to syncronise the time with my camera (press button on GPS logger at same time as taking photo of my feet, get computer to compare timestamps, feed resulting offset into gps-correlate to get accurate times and positions on photos). This enabled me to turn the same set of data into a short kml file for the flyby, and a long gbx file to use with gps-correllate to geotag all my photos.

See the Man page for more info. This programme was used to generate some of the Exmouth to Lympstone cycle path stuff on the old website.

csv2kml2 - This is a stripped down csv2kml that only uses minimum Perl libraries to just make the gpx and kml files, so is more suitable for my Eee (now running Ubuntu). I used it to make this Google Earth flyby of the Lynton and Barnstable railway line from Woody Bay to Killerton lane.

These scripts relied on the Window's software that came with the Q1000 to download the CSV data. Since the crash of my XP box, I have no direct way of downloading data. The mtkbabel program is great for sucking data out of the Q1000 when running on my Linux boxes, but I think the output sux ;-) I much prefer the filtered gpx + kml output from csv2kml, but I need to find a way of bolting the 2nd half of my programme onto the 1st half of Niccolo's. Unfortunatly I cannot understand his code yet.