Johns:
Thanks for the other utilities. There's a number out there, of course, though getting that function as part of the core of ArcGIS 10 is really my preference and that or our SAR group. When running a SAR, we need to download the tracklogs of where our teams have searched. So we often get a bunch at once to download. Then we want to store them into a GDB. Edan Cain, a developer at ESRI, has actually developed a tool for our group that:
· Is totally customized to support several needed fields, and creates and populates them if they don�??t exist.
· appends to existing feature classes
· iterates through all gpx files within an entire directory
· Running the tool over and over again on the same directory only pulls the new additions
· Lists where the gpx file is located on disk
He said it would be pretty easy to add this tool to the core of ArcGIS 10. Overall, it works great but there's still some glitches with differently acquired GPX files.
I just checked the DNR Garmin site again and they now say coding hasn't even started to get it into 10. Of course, that's specific to Garmin units so it can be made to connect directly and download.
George
