Add an option to download location data in CSV

Product Discussion Feature Requests
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Fleet managers rely on the ability to pull data into other systems for long term storage and analytics. A prime example is when fleet vehicles have incidents involving other vehicles or pedestrians - it is important that the operator can download data in a usable form that can also be stored longer term for litigation. GPX data is not generally consumable by these operators - CSV files are highly preferable. It would be extremely helpful if there was a download alternative to the “Download as GPX” to allow a “Download as CSV”. In addition, this CSV should contain all of the data visible on the map - including speed.

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Agreed. I’ve had multiple customers wish for more speed (mph/kph) in the GPS data points. Having CSV would help as well.

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Hi Team,

It would be useful indeed, this obviously would also mean more data points - more data being consumed for telemetry.

There are heaps of tools online to convert GPX to CSV - example here:

GPX to CSV Converter Online | MyGeodata Cloud

GPS Visualizer: Convert GPS files to plain text or GPX

Route converter | AllTrails

The only challenge is that the GPX format being exported is not standard - there are ways to convert these to CSV. Easiest would be to make a script to perform this task (Or get Grok to make it for you!).

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Thanks Nik. A couple observations:

  1. I’ve used a number of the GPX conversion tools - I have found some (mygeodata in particular) has real trouble converting the locations. I have frequently been told all lat/longs are (0,0).
  2. Most of the online tools are actually free-to-try but paid for. We’ve run into paywalls already and our customers will not abide.
  3. We’ve used GPSBabel to compute the speed, which works well but unfortunately (for our customers) is client app that needs to be downloaded and installed.
  4. For litigation purposes, every time another app has to touch and manipulate the data, another layer of uncertainty is added.
  5. For web-based tools, we have some customers that have heartburn around uploading their data into portals whose security is unknown.

All of which makes the customer respond with: Why can’t I just download the data I see in the portal in a CSV?

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Great feedback Mark.

I would consider creating an application for your clients at first instance that does what you require. You’d be surprised how easy it is nowadays to get Grok or Claude to make what you need.

That being said, I would appreciate having CSV as export format as well!