WhereWasI

Given a GPX data file and a time reference, infer a location.

API documentation is available on rubydoc.org.

w = WhereWasI::Gpx.new(gpx_file: '/home/alex/track.gpx')
w.at('2014-01-01T00:00:00Z')
#=> {lat: 48.0, lon: 98.0, elevation: 1000}

By default, at will return nil if the supplied time is not covered by the GPX data. This includes times before the earliest data or after the last data, or times that fall in-between GPX segments. (Like if your GPS receiver was turned off for a few minutes.)

w = WhereWasI::Gpx.new(gpx_file: '/home/alex/track.gpx')
w.at('2014-01-02T00:00:00Z')
#=> nil

For times that fall outside any segments, you can opt to guess about a location in a few different ways, instead of returning nil.

If you would like to interpolate a location using the ending and beginning locations of the nearest segments, do the following:

w = WhereWasI::Gpx.new(
  gpx_file: '/home/alex/track.gpx',
  intersegment_behavior: :interpolate
)
w.at('2014-01-02T00:00:00Z')

Interpolating will give impossible results if a large distance exists between two segments. In those cases, simply selecting the location of segment begin/end which is nearest in time may be preferable.

w = WhereWasI::Gpx.new(
  gpx_file: '/home/alex/track.gpx',
  intersegment_behavior: :nearest
)
w.at('2014-01-02T00:00:00Z')