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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
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<h1>Uploading GPS tracks and locations</h1>
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<h2>The end-result you are trying to achieve</h2>
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What you are trying to do is to get your recorded locations (waypoints) and wanderings (tracks)
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(a) are recorded somewhere, (b) eventually appear properly in the cave survey database and. You have to upload
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the tracks and waypoints in a GPX file to the right place.
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<p>If you are really lazy (or really a beginner) you can use the simple upload method, but there are some
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unavoidable complexities in getting the GPX file out of your device.
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<p><em>(If you are looking for how to upload some photos instead, those instructions are
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<a href="uploading.html">here</a>)</em>.
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<h3>Instructions: contents</h3>
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<li><a href="#getgpx">Get the GPX file</a> that holds your locations and wanderings from your phone.
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<li><a href="#uploadgpx">Upload the GPX file</a> to the proper place.
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<h2 id="getgpx">Getting the GPX data out of your phone or device</h2>
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<li>Use the "Wikilocs" app (or another app with GPS tracking function) to record your track as you walk across the plateau.
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<li>When you have finished your walk and are back on the internet, publish your track using the app.
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<li>In the app,there is an option to "share" your track by email:
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<li>Share it with yourself i.e. email it to your own email address.
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<li>Share it with someone who knows how to do the GPX thing and upload it properly.
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</ul>
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<li>On your laptop (or possibly on your phone) look at the email and visit the web page by clicking on the link.
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<li>The web page has a "Download" button: click on it.
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<li>It may give you options such as "Garmin", or "File". Choose "File".
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<li>It will ask for a filename to use. Pick something like "northplat-asmith-2018-07-29" (if your name is Aaron Smith)
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<li>A GPX file "northplat-asmith-2018-07-29.gpx" will be downloaded to the Downloads folder on your laptop.
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</ol>
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<p>
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Congratulations. You now have your track recorded using GPS as a GPX file.
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<h2 id="uploadgpx">Upload instructions</h2>
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<h3>Simple upload instructions</h3>
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<ol>
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<li>Email the public link from the app to someone who knows how to do it. <br>
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<li>Email the GPX file to someone who knows how to do it. <br>
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GPX files are small enough for email systems, so don't be shy of adding them as attachments.
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<p>If you can't find someone who knows how to do it, find the most extreme nerd you can find and point them at the
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<a href="#expert">Expert instructions</a> below.
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<h3>Slightly less simple upload instructions</h3>
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<p>Using your own laptop on expo, or after you return from expo,
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use the "more complex" instructions for <a href="uploading.html">uploading photos</a> to /uploads/,
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but upload your GPX files instead.
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<h2 id="expert">Experts only</h2>
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<p>
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GPX data is stored in two places.
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<ul>
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<li>initially in <em>expofiles/gpslogs/...</em>
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<li>some key selected tracks are later stored in the cave survey repository <em>::loser::</em>
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</ul>
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<p>
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GPS tracks are voluminous and we also get a lot of repetition
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as people tend to follow the same routes for part of their walks. So the initial raw data is kept in
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<pre>
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expofiles/gpslogs/<year>/<MyName>/
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e.g.
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<pre>
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expofiles/gpslogs/2018/PhilipSargent/
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</pre>
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<p>and you can create sub-folders for raw data and edited data, or for different parts of the plateau. You should always
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keep the raw, untouched data as well as any hand-edited data.
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<p>The process for uploading the GPX files to a specific folder <em>expofiles/gpslogs/...</em> is exactly the
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same as for uploading photographs, so go to <a href="uploading.html#morecomplex">these "more complex" instructions</a>
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to learn how to do it.
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<p>Note the naming convention for this folder created by Philip Sargent in 2018.
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Human names in folders in expofiles are written in CamelCase; not lower-case letters.
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This is for consistency with the naming for
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<a href="uploading.html#experienced">uploading photos</a>.
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If you have edited GPS tracks and waypoints with no extraneous data
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then, after agreeing this with other people as to its qualityand appropriateness,
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it will go into the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/loser/graph/">Loser DVCS repository</a>
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in folder <em>/gpx/<year>/</em> e.g. <br>
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<em>::loser::/2018/stone-bridge-to-fischgesicht_aday-2018-07-12.gpx</em><br>
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<p>Note the naming convention for this file created by Anthony Day on July 12th 2018.
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Everything in any repository is always named using lower-case letters.
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