Cannot import *-wpts.gpx into garmin baseCamp (posible solution found) [closed]

Question

Hi. Few months ago I submited this by e-mail but after recieving reply to provide more info I left this one.

Waypoint GPX generated from PGC fails to import into garmin basecamp:

Super desriptive error. Thanks garmin for that! :)

I did sime little research with the help of to http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/ and it looks that I found the problem:

By the way I found ~100 attributes which were ="". After changing all of them to ="0" file import suceeds:

I am experiencing this in waypoints only. But 3 months ago I noticed it in geocache gpx import.

 

I've found following empty attributes:

minlat="" minlon="" in <bounds minlat="" minlon="" maxlat="56.410667" maxlon="26.448050" />

lat="" lon="" in <wpt lat="" lon="">

When submiting this update I've now understand why you didn't see them from code. It's because of waypoints without coords :) Example: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/wpt.aspx?WID=592d2a78-ca4c-4310-8038-b7f0d5ade92f

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Exactly, I just realized the same. I will now build a GPX at Geocaching.com from such cache to see how it "should" look.

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Fix created, and published to live servers.
My answer is updated.

Answer 1

A very good bug report. We will try to look into the matter within a week. Doesn't sound like a very hard fix.

But I took a look at the bounds-generation, I currently can't see the issue. I will have to debug it for real. Is that issue only in the -wpts file or in the "real" GPX file as well?

Was it in many different cases the attribute was =""? If it's only a few different variants, it would be great if you could edit your question and add examples of them. Then I don't have to try to reproduce, and maybe miss something.

 

Ok, a fix has been applied. After building a GPX with the cache GC3CF1X in it at Geocaching.com, I realize that they do not include waypoints with hidden coordinates at all. Project-GC is now doing the same, and therefore avoiding this issue (fix released to live servers a few minutes ago).

I also tested to build a GPX on 1200 random geocaches, there was no accourance of ="" in the GPX-files.

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Main description updated