Bulk importing of GPX GPS tracks into QGIS either by interface or Python

[David Crisp]

I have 200 GPX tracks I have created over the last year or so that I would like to bulk load into a layer(or layers) in QGIS.    Currently the QGIS GPS plug in only appears to allow me to import one at a time.

A web search doesn't seem to show any native ways of doing this at this point in time.

Is there a way of Bulk importing GPX tracks,  to either a single layer (ALL GPX tracks go on the one layer) OR to individual layers (each GPX gets its own layer).  

I went looking for python examples of how to do this with QGIS and again there doesn't seem to be easily searchable examples. (That is, they may be out there but I found none with my queries)

I'm not in a position to take the GPS plug in and hack it apart at this point in time.

Regards,
David Crisp

[Thomas McAdam]

Hi David

You can open GPX files without the GPS plugin. So in theory you can select all your GPX files in Windows Explorer and drag and drop them into QGIS. It may not be very happy about the large number of files, and I suspect you may need to select Waypoints,Tacks, Routes etc. for each file. But its worth a shot.

All the best

Tom 

[Johanna Botman]

The ability to drag an drop files from Windows Explorer to the QGIS window is one of my favourite 'finds' in QGIS.

 

QGIS is happy to import a huge range of file types this way. But you are restricted by the total number of layers you can have open at one time. I think it's about 100.

[James Spath]

Not QGIS but could you use ogr2ogr and write them all to one shapefile?

 

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_gpx.html

 

You could also give this a shot http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpxmerge/

Also gpsBabel can do it http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/Advanced_Usage.html

 

Cheers

 

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