This is a small gpx to geojson converter tool that I hacked within an hour while chatting. It uses rapidxml and is pretty fast.
Fastest way to use this tool in Linux is to use the pre-build static binaries which are published as releases in this repository.
rapidxml is included in the repository (version 1.13). No further dependencies required
Build and install the tool with
make
sudo make install
The program will be installed to ``/usr/local/bin` by default
Print the help message (right now not so useful)
geoJson -h
By default the program reads from stdin until the end and then parses the input.
Convert the file FILE.gpx to GeoJson
geoJson FILE.gpx
The file prints the GeoJson to standart output. If you want to write it to a file use -o
geoJson FILE.gpx -o FILE.json
An an example I provide the following file from Wikiloc: iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.gpx
Test it with
geoJson -o iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.json iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.gpx
This write the file iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.gpx to iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.json
Back in the time I used the nice tool togeojson for converting a gpx file to geoJson. This tool is written in Node.js and I wanted hack a simpler and faster tool for doing this task. Although performance is probably not an issue for this task, I took the challenge ;-)
Benchmark on my FX-8350 using togeojson
$ time togeojson iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.gpx >/dev/null
real 0m0.563s
user 0m0.680s
sys 0m0.032s
Same input file, same processor, now my tool
$ time geoJson iceland-landmannalaugar-porsmork.gpx >/dev/null
real 0m0.040s
user 0m0.024s
sys 0m0.012s
Compare it yourself and feel free to share!