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derelict

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revisiting track adjustment
« on: December 01, 2010, 08:17:22 AM »
I recorded a track out at Foothill College yesterday, for a class assignment.  For anyone's reference, I'm including the gpx file here (it's only 8KB).  Part of the track is fine, but about half of it, the latter half, is *way* off, showing me wandering blithely through the middle of a building.  I need to be able adjust a group of points (but *not* all of them), and move them to more-reasonable locations.  I'd obviously prefer to do that graphically with drag-and-drop, rather than manually updating coordinates.  Is there *any* way I can manage that in TF ??  If not, can anyone recommend a (preferably free) program that handles this task?

Later note: I could not upload the file to here, because the upload folder is apparently full.  Instead, I've placed it on my website:
http://home.comcast.net/~derelict/files/lcc.transits.gpx

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Re: revisiting track adjustment
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 09:51:41 AM »
Seems like you are still looking for the box select tool?  It does exactly what you describe -- allows you to select a group of points and drag and drop them to a new location.  Or am I missing something?

Thx for the heads up on full attachment space.  I increased the limit.

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Re: revisiting track adjustment
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 11:38:05 AM »
Geeez, I'm such a dolt...  ???
Actually, your "Select Point" option is exactly what I want in this case.
I rejected "Select Box" initially in this case, because I couldn't put a box around the points I WANT to move without also selecting points I didn't want to move.  However, what I *really* wanted to do is just move each point into the middle of the path that I know I was walking on... which is exactly what "Select Point" does. 

I don't know *why* I am so easily confused these days.

Anyway, once again TopoFusion proves itself to be not only an ideal tool, but the only easy-to-use tool for the job... Thank you for your help.

There *is* another issue that I have with TF, relevant to my current requirement, but it's a different topic, so I'll post it separately.