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gps2htmlReport-0.3: README.md

GPS 2 HTML Report
================

This is a utility written in Haskell, to generate HTML reports from GPS track files.

Included in the report:

* Details of the journey... journey time, distance travelled etc..
* Diagrams charting speed, elevation, accumulated distance etc..
* OpenStreetMap diagram highlighting the GPS track

An example can be seen [here](http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rs46/gps2htmlreport/3/index.html).

The hackage page is [here](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gps2htmlReport).

Installation
------------
A user first of all needs to install the Haskell Platform. For
exmaple, on an RPM-based machine, as root:
```
># yum install haskell-platform
```


The **recommended** way to install the `gps2HtmlReport' program, is to
grab it via http://hackage.haskell.org:
```
cabal update
cabal install gps2htmlReport
```

Or to install the version in the github repository:
```
git clone git://github.com/robstewart57/Gps2HtmlReport.git
cd Gps2HtmlReport
cabal update
cabal configure
cabal install
```

This Haskell program also makes use of the bindings to
**GraphcsMagick** and **Cairo**, and so the necessary system packages
need to be installed, via a Linux package manager.

On an RPM-based package manager, run this command as root:
```
># yum install GraphicsMagick cairo gtk2hs-buildtools
```

Prerequisites
-------------
First of all, you need to have your GPS date in a GPX file. There are
many gpx exporters available. I use my Android phone to take GPX
tracks, with a great application,
[OSMTracker](https://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/). This
application allows you to export your GPS tracks to GPX.

Usage
-----
The program will search for all files ending in ".gpx", and for each one, generate a HTML report.
```
$ cd $location_of_gpx_files
$ ls
1.gpx
$ gps2HtmlReport --help

gps2HtmlReport [OPTIONS]
  A Haskell utility to generate HTML page reports of GPS Tracks and Track
  overlays on OpenStreetMap tiles

Common flags:
  -i --imageonly  Generates only an image of the track overlay on an
                  OpenStreetMap layer
  -a --archive    Produce tar archive for web and image files
     --hashnames  Create reports in hashed directory names
  -h --help       Display help message
  -v --version    Print version information
  -V --Verbose    Loud verbosity
  -q --quiet      Quiet verbosity
```


Problems
-----

If you receive this error when trying to run the program:
```
can't load .so/.DLL for: stdc++ (libstdc++.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
```

... then you are experiencing this bug: [#5289](http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5289).

To fix this

* Fedora 32bit:  $# ln -vs $(gcc --print-file-name=libstdc++.so) /usr/lib/
* Fedora 64bit:  $# ln -vs $(gcc --print-file-name=libstdc++.so) /usr/lib64/
* Ubuntu 32bit:  $# ln -vs $(gcc --print-file-name=libstdc++.so) /usr/local/lib/
* Ubuntu 64bit:  $# ln -vs $(gcc --print-file-name=libstdc++.so) /usr/local/lib64/

If you experience other problems, please let me know - and preferrably
sending me the problematic .gpx file.

Credits
-------

Thanks to [Thomas DuBuisson](http://www.haskellers.com/user/TomMD), for implementing the `gps' package and contributing it to Hackage.