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[ScottVickery1969]

The GPX exports to a Track. Typically, tracks have date/times associated with the waypoints, which we do not have since it has not occurred yet. I think it would make more sense to export as a Route.

[idefix37]

@ScottVickery1969
For you what is the point of exporting a route as GPX file ?
Your demand is not clear.

[ScottVickery1969]

@idefix37 I export the route so that it can be imported to navigation apps such as Navionics or Aqua Maps

[idefix37]

@ScottVickery1969

Does the GPX format includes dates and time ? I don’t think so, but I may be wrong.
By the way I exported a GPX file generated by Route planner, but when I import this file into Navionics it says the file is corrupted. But I can import it into another app.
Did you try it?

[ScottVickery1969]

@idefix37 Yes. The reason it is "corrupt" is it is a track without date/time stamps. I think exporting as a route instead of a track makes more sense.

[idefix37]

@ScottVickery1969
So from what you explain, the Route Planner does not plot a route but a track?

[ScottVickery1969]

@idefix37 The route planner plans a route. It should export as a route.

[nola-sail]

Hey guys,
I am also just looking into this and compared a gpx file that works for import in navionics and the file from windy export.

I think @ScottVickery1969 is right and it would be right to change the export to use rte and rtept xml/gpx tags.

A tested example what the export should look like:

    
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Implementation wise it is very little to change:

• tag trk should be rte
• tag trkpt should be rtept
• Remove Tag trkseg
  That should be it, should be doable in relatively low time effort.

I hope this helps to implement and fix the exported files.

Greetings from Curacao

[nola-sail]

Here is also a screenshot of the fixed gpx as the forum does not really make sense of gpx code:

[nola-sail]

thoughts @idefix37 ?

[idefix37]

@nola-sail

Sorry I have no expertise in gpx code

[nola-sail]

Is there any possibility to reach the windy devs with this feedback?

[David Ryzec 3]

@nola-sail Hi, thanks for reporting. This should be fixed in next release

[Cody Bellerose]

@David-Ryzec-3 I am looking to import a gpx file from my flight tracker to obtain the wind data and then export a new gpx file with the wind data to slap in telemetry overlay so that I can have wind data overlayed on my GoPro videos. Is this possible with windy?