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How do track pools work?
Posted on: Fri, 09/05/2008 - 19:52
gfarrar
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How do track pools work?
Is there any way to manage them? i know you said you dont need to remove them, but what if you add an erroneous gpx file? Does the track pool persist thru app restart or does it need to be re-added each time? if you add multiple gpx files will it use both of them or does the second one replace the first?
-graham
This is exactly the kind of reason I wanted to get other people testing the app - my own knowledge of the application stopped me writing clear enough documentation...
When you feed GPS2Aperture one or more GPX files it saves them in a modified form (split into hours) into ~/Library/Application Support/GPS2Aperture/log files. So the trackpool is persistent through restarts, and each log file only needs to be added once.
The main reasoning behind this approach is that GPS2Aperture can retrieve the coordinates quickly no matter how many log files have been added - most geotagging apps I've used slow down drastically once you've added a few dozen log files. With GPS2Aperture you can just keep adding files.
The main downside I can think of is if you have multiple photographers using the same account, who would need their own separate log files, so I'll need to add a warning about this to the docs.
Ian