(07.09.2009, 08:57)routeconverter Wrote:(04.09.2009, 01:41)RsH Wrote: It turns out that Streets and Trips saves the time in Standard Time in the time zone. As a result I am in Eastern Daylight Time -4, the record says -5. While I know it should always show Zulu time, the fact is that it does NOT... so what now?
Maybe another workaround that creates GMT/Zulu time out of the read time if the creator is "Microsoft Streets & Trips"? (Like the speed Km/h vs. m/s workaround for Mobile Action)
Below is a stripped down example with the first position recorded, so you can see the -05:00 and the really dumb 13 decimal places of 'accuracy' for the latitude and longitude, which would be accurate to the width of a hair, if valid [which we know it isn't]. I suspect that for the 2011 version they might well have this corrected, since I've been in contact with the team at Microsoft and they now KNOW this is wrong, but the 2010 version is gold and out in the stores now.
Somehow I do not see them putting out a patch to fix this problem, which to them is likely considered minor [since MS tries to re-write standards all the time]... So we'll have to wait a year to see if this 'patch' needs any revision to the wording you search for, but for now that sort of patch would work...
Of course, it hasn't been tested in other places that use Daylight Savings Time, so it likely is unique to the time zones used in North America, where the program maps.
I loaded the Panama Canal GPX in and it showed up [pretty useless as you cannot zoom in to see anything] but then, Streets and Trips does NOT import the time info from any GPX file that is loaded in, so the issue only applies to an exported GPX FROM Streets and Trips 2010. Thus to examine the GPX file and get info like speed, time, etc., you need to look into the file itself or use a program like Route Converter to look at it, after the fact.
I could then save the results of using the GPX file in Route Converter to get the time info corrected, and THEN use the GPX file to geocode photos with the CORRECT time parameters in the GPX file, so that is one advantage of doing this sort of 'fix' via Route Converter, and I will point it out at www.laptopgpsworld.com, where Streets and Trips is covered in detail.
You might want to look for <license>http://www.microsoft.com/streets</license> as I hope they take this nonsense out for next year. What do they think they are licensing to you, in any case? GPX is not theirs to license! You'll find it in the extract below <grin>
Bob [aka RsH]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" creator="Microsoft Streets & Trips" version="1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd"><metadata><name>Testing GPX of path.gpx</name><desc>Data exported from Microsoft Streets & Trips</desc><copyright author="Microsoft Streets & Trips"><license>http://www.microsoft.com/streets</license></copyright><time>2009-09-04T15:29:26</time><keywords>Testing GPX of path.gpx, Microsoft Streets & Trips</keywords></metadata><trk><trkseg><trkpt lat="43.7645156540322" lon="-79.4104635549121"><time>2009-09-04T19:10:03-05:00</time><ele>398.3000</ele></trkpt></trkseg></trk></gpx>