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Make GPX export+import use element "link" for POI website

Georg D shared this idea 10 years ago
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I like very much the URL/Website element for POIs - I just need to tap on it and the website opens instantly, without any typing :-) Unfortunately, during GPX export+import in v 2.10.2, the POI website information is not written to / read from WPT child element "link", but it`s rather written to a piece of HTML inside desc element.


=> Hence, GPX files originating from any other software loose their URLs during import to Locus, and GPX files exported from Locus do not fill the URL in other softwares. I always need to edit the files in a text editor.


=> Please make GPX export+import use element "link" for the POI website

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Cool, in v2.15.0 a file exported as v1.1 GPX contains the link element! :-)


But sadly, a tiny bug has big consequences, i.e. makes the file nearly unusable: The created file is invalid as it contains unescaped ampersand symbol (&) in the URL within the href attribute of the link element - just escape it as & a m p ; and it


works fine.

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ah damn, thanks Georg, I`m stupid ... will be fixed in next version

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Just to confirm, import & export of links with ampersand symbol working fine in v2.20.2 :-)

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perfect, thank you!

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