Show gpx track on map

[ramGHnet]

I would like to display recorded gpx tracks (bicycle, car, camper, etc) on an obsidian-leafleat map.

With leaflet I used the leaflet-gpx plugin for this.

Could you implement the feature in obsidian-leaflet as well?

[valentine195]

This would be handled by the plugin similarly to GeoJSON, I think (as in, a parameter in the source block). Does that work for you?

[ramGHnet]

geojson is also ok. Then I convert my 500 gpx files with python to geojson, generate an obsidian note (with obsidian-leaflet content) and see what happens.

[Moonbase59]

You could also convert your GPX to GeoJSON using one of the following services:

• https://mapbox.github.io/togeojson/ (copy-paste)
• https://products.aspose.app/gis/conversion/gpx-to-geojson (drop file)

That would allow using the existing GeoJSON features, plus editing the file in JSON. (That’s what I do with my MyTrails data.)

Then again, modern GPX tracker data contains a lot more niceties, like, for instance

• elevation
• speed
• distance
• moving pace/speed
• heartrate
• temperature
• … and more.

[Moonbase59]

Thinking about it, it might be nice to have direct GPX support in Obsidian Leaflet: I find myself using MyTrails (Android) ever more often, and keeping separate GPX and GeoJSON versions isn’t so nice. Besides, I have to convert every time, losing data if doing GPX → GeoJSON → GPX (I like to transfer the edited GPX back to the smartphone).

GPX has for me the advantage that:

• I can sync the GPX data from my mobile with my laptop/desktop
• I can edit the GPX on my laptop/desktop
• I can store waypoints (POIs)
• GPX has much more data, like travel direction, speed, track lengths, height difference, timestamps etc.
• I can (manually) use the stored waypoint data for my Obidian Leaflet notes

MyTrails (and other GPX apps) show tracks and statistics quite nicely, might be nice to have that in Obsidian Leaflet too, without converting …

[valentine195]

Basic gpx support added in 3.24.0. See here.

More features will be coming, but for now you can display them.