gpsspeed

github.com/tallakt/plcutil

DESCRIPTION:

GPS Track speed calculation utility

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

This utility will take a gpx file as input (created for instance by www.easygps.com/) and display the statistics for the best speeds of the tracks in the file over a certain distance that may be supplied

SYNOPSIS:

A starting point for using gpsspeed, try the –help option

gpsspeed --help

Usage: gpsspeed [options] <input.gpx>
    -l, --length DIST                Minimum required length (default 500m)
                                       Accepts km,m,ft,miles,nm
    -s, --speed-format FMT           Select speed format (default m/s)
                                       Accepts knots,mph,m/s,km/h
    -f, --length-format FMT          Select length format (default m)
                                       Accepts km,m,ft,miles,nm
    -h, --help                       Show this message

A common usage would be to run the command without any special options

gpsspeed myfile.gpx

Which gives you an output like this

Speed [m/s]      #frm       #to        #n            time [s]        Distance [m]
     1.6411         4         9         6               65.00               106.7
     1.4037        13        19         7               77.00               108.1

The utility finds the highest speeds in the track file over a minimum distance. The best runs are listed in descending order (ie. fastest run first). To use a different length, use the -l parameter

gpsspeed -l 200m myfile.gpx

To display the results in different units, use the -s and -f options, like this

gpsspeed -s knots -f nm

Which gives you a result table like this

Speed [knots] #frm #to #n time [s] Distance [nm]

3.1901         4         9         6               65.00              0.0576
2.7285        13        19         7               77.00              0.0584

REQUIREMENTS:

Requires the gem tallakt-geoutm

INSTALL:

sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install tallakt-gpsspeed

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Tallak Tveide

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