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[SOLVED] Split track into segments? - Vincent - 22.10.2025
Hello,
The help file is empty and I found no item in the menu that looked like what I need to do.
When planning a multi-day bike trip, I need to split a track into days.
In GPS Track Editor (which, sadly no longer displays the Mapnik map, on my computer at this time at least), I simply right-clicked on a point and chose Restructuring > Add break.
In RC, PositionList > Split cuts the track at that point… while deleting the rest of the track :-/
Is there a work-around?
Thank you.
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Edit: Unless there's a better way, I found a work-around since RC allows running more than one instance of the application:
- Launch RC and open the whole GPX, select and copy the first section/stage
- Launch a second instance of RC, paste the points, save as a new file, and close instance
- Back in the whole file, delete that first section still selected, and proceed to the next section/stage. Repeat, rinse.
- Finally, to merge all the stages into a single file, use eg. GpsBabel:
Code:gpsbabel -i gpx -f 1.gpx -f 2.gpx -f 3.gpx -o gpx -F merged.gpx
Not as simple as splitting a track into segments with GpsTrackEditor in situ, but 1) RC is under development while GTE is deadware (and closed-source), and 2) it's easy enough.
Suggestions:
- Support working on more than one file/section in a single instance of RC
- Add File > Close to avoid having to close and relaunch RC to work on another file
- In File > Open, after pasting a filename, Java adds a trailing space… which causes an error (same problem in JOSM, GpsPrune, etc.), which can take a little while to figure out the first time. Maybe it's just Java and there's no fix
RE: [SOLVED] Split track into segments? - routeconverter - 04.11.2025
(22.10.2025, 13:58)Vincent Wrote: In RC, PositionList > Split cuts the track at that point… while deleting the rest of the track :-/
No, it doesn't delete them. RouteConverter creates a second position list with the remainder of the track. It's the last entry of the position list combobox.
(22.10.2025, 13:58)Vincent Wrote: [*]In File > Open, after pasting a filename, Java adds a trailing space… which causes an error (same problem in JOSM, GpsPrune, etc.), which can take a little while to figure out the first time. Maybe it's just Java and there's no fix
Where do you paste the file name? On my Mac there is no input field: