Ellie: plot elevation from a GPS track

There are lots of ways, mostly related to the Open Street Map project, to display GPS data on Linux. But none of them display elevation. I like being able to track how much I climbed on a hike or bike ride.

So I wrote a little Python script which I'm calling ellie. It parses track log files, in gpx format, and gives you a graph and a few statistics.

It uses pylab for plotting, which uses matplotlib; you'll need the python-matplotlib package installed (or its equivalent) to see the graphs. New in 0.3: ellie can print stats on total climb, distance traveled, moving time and stopped time even if pylab isn't installed.

Download

Get it here: ellie v. 0.3.

Usage

ellie tracklog.gpx It can currently plot only one track log at a time (is there much need to do more?)

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Changelog

10/30/2010, 0.3:

Give an estimate for total distance traveled, moving time and stopped time; if pylab isn't installed so we can't plot, print the stats anyway.

3/18/2009, 0.2:

Fixed meters/feet confusion. Smarter total climb code: don't count little blips like taking the GPS out of its case to read it.

0.1:

First release.