Format
GPS Exchange Format
Summary
- Name
- GPS Exchange Format
- Version
- 1.1
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1134
- Format type
- Text (Mark-up)
- Description
- GPX is an XML schema used by various software applications and websites to show and describe GPS data such as routes, tracks, projecting GPS data onto maps and annotating maps.
- File extensions
-
gpx - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has priority over
- Is subtype of
Internal signatures
GPX 1.1
- Note
- BOF: XML declaration{8-512}GPX 1.1 namespace http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27){8-512}687474703A2F2F7777772E746F706F6772616669782E636F6D2F4750582F312F3122- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V96
- Release date
- 21 January 2020
GPS Exchange Format 1.1: Signature updated to increase length of possible bytes between the xml declaration and magic bytes. Submitted by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of PRONOM Research Week 2019.
GPS Exchange Format 1.1: Signature developed and samples provided by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of PRONOM Research Week 2019.
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Added in V94
- Release date
- 17 September 2018
GPS Exchange Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
GPS Exchange Format: Full entry added.