30 _ GPS Dialog.help.md

GPS Dialog

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How to open

The GPS dialog can be opened by using the Commands > GPS Plotter option in the menu bar.

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User interface

Export directory selector

Composed of a button to select the directory to export the GPS data to and a textbox displaying that directory.

GPS plot window

The window where the GPS points extracted from a data set will be plotted. The style of the plot depends on the background color chosen in the main window.

Button bar

Contains three buttons:

• Read/Plot: Read the GPS data and then plot it.
• Export: Export the GPS points into a tab-separated file.
• Close: Close the GPS dialog.

Notification/info box

The box to display notifications or the information of a GPS data poin,

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How to use

Plotting GPS data of a data set

Once a data set has been loaded, its GPS data can be plotted by clicking the Read/Plot button.

Each GPS data point is plotted as a small rectangle.

Once the plotting finishes, a message is displayed in the notification with the number of data points plotted.

Furthermore, the range of latitude and longitude of the GPS data is displayed on the plot.

Displaying a GPS data point's information

When the GPS data finished plotting, clicking on a point on the plot will display its data in the notification box.

Exporting the GPS data

By clicking the Export button, the GPS data will be exported to a file. The name of the exported file is the name of the data set suffixed with .gps.dat. By default, the file will be in the same directory as the data set. A sample directory structure is given below.

Data/
├─ data.data/
└─ data.data.gps.dat

The directory the export file is stored in can be changed by clicking on the Export Directory button.