[SOLVED] Split track into segments?

[Vincent]

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:

1. Launch RC and open the whole GPX, select and copy the first section/stage
   
2. Launch a second instance of RC, paste the points, save as a new file, and close instance
   
3. Back in the whole file, delete that first section still selected, and proceed to the next section/stage. Repeat, rinse.
   
4. 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