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[RsH]

Hi Bob,

you know, I always try to keep the program as simple as possible. If you remove all positions which showed no movements via the "Remove duplicate positions" dialog - won't you get the travel time then?

No, since, as an example, I have just combined 4 GPX files that make up our trip from Chambersburg, PA to our home in North York, ON. That includes an overnight stay at a motel in Springville, NY so the elapsed time, even when all of the zero movement is removed still is computed by the program from the beginning of the first GPX file to the ending of the last GPX file, which are now one file, with time gaps. The way to compute the actual time spent travelling, in the case of the ASUS R300, which records once per second, then is to count the number of positions that remain after removing the duplicates and 0 movement positions and divide by 3600 to get the hours and decimal hours travelled, subtract the hours and multiply by 60 to get the minutes, and subtract the minutes and multiply by 60 to get the seconds <grin>... Not particularly hard to do, and what I actually did do... The elapsed time is from the morning of one day to the middle of the next day, the travel time is about 8 hours. The program shows the elapsed time, not the travel time, where it shows the distance travelled.

Keep the program simple... as I can easily do the math I am suggesting would be appropriate when more than one GPX file is used to combine the files and get a total trip overview, as I have done in this case. I have no idea if anyone else does the sorts of manipulation of files that I do <grin> and therefore would find this feature useful.