Waypoints Only

12 waypoints · 2 KB

About this route

Twelve standalone waypoints marking points of interest, with no track connecting them. It exists to prove the waypoint fallback: when a file has no track or route points, the viewer still renders the waypoints instead of erroring.

This is a synthetic sample: the coordinates are plausible for City points of interest (open water, no roads to trace) and contain no personal GPS data. Public domain — CC0 1.0.

What this file demonstrates

The <wpt> fallback path when a file contains no track.

What's inside

12 waypoints
no track
no timestamps
no elevation change
2 KB · GPX 1.1

File preview

First 20 lines of waypoints-only.gpx:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx version="1.1" creator="gpxviewer.app-samples" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:gpxtpx="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackPointExtension/v1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <name>Waypoints Only</name>
    <desc>Synthetic sample track for gpxviewer.app — Waypoint-fallback parser test (0 track points). Coordinates are plausible for City points of interest (open water — no roads to trace) and contain no personal GPS data. Public domain (CC0-1.0).</desc>
    <author><name>gpxviewer.app</name></author>
    <copyright author="gpxviewer.app"><license>https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</license></copyright>
    <time>2024-06-01T07:00:00Z</time>
    <bounds minlat="48.847791" minlon="2.342209" maxlat="48.865845" maxlon="2.361826"/>
  </metadata>
  <wpt lat="48.847839" lon="2.345205"><ele>96.2</ele><name>Waypoint 1</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.863217" lon="2.347972"><ele>72.6</ele><name>Waypoint 2</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.850198" lon="2.354847"><ele>79.6</ele><name>Waypoint 3</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.864096" lon="2.351178"><ele>55.2</ele><name>Waypoint 4</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.856851" lon="2.344549"><ele>72.1</ele><name>Waypoint 5</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.850277" lon="2.355362"><ele>30.3</ele><name>Waypoint 6</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.865845" lon="2.353832"><ele>85.2</ele><name>Waypoint 7</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.856488" lon="2.357909"><ele>44.5</ele><name>Waypoint 8</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.848493" lon="2.356766"><ele>38.6</ele><name>Waypoint 9</name></wpt>
  <wpt lat="48.847791" lon="2.357401"><ele>42.5</ele><name>Waypoint 10</name></wpt>

Common questions

There is no line — is that a bug?

No. This file has only waypoints and no track, so there is nothing to connect. The viewer plots the points.

Why does it show no distance or time?

Distance, speed and duration need consecutive track points with timestamps; loose waypoints have neither.