How can I prune a (kmz) track from my GPS?

Question

I want to keep a track from a walk the other day. When I stopped walking and got into a taxi, I forgot to turn the GPS off immediately, and now I want to prune away all of the taxi track.

I've done something similar manually before, by deleting individual data points from the text file, but now it's a bit too hard.

I have tried GpsPrune and JGPSTrackEdit without any success. Here are some images:

Original kmz in Google Earth: http://imgur.com/M1itMwC

Original kml in Google Earth: http://imgur.com/hLCGhPT

Original kmz in GpsPrune (only start and end points show): http://imgur.com/CkGSYXL

Original kml in GpsPrune (only start and end points show): http://imgur.com/pLh9jX3

Original kmz opened in JGPSTrackEdit (nothing appeared): http://imgur.com/SaQwiWH

Original kml opened in JGPSTrackEdit (nothing appeared): http://imgur.com/OcJDRJo

Answer 1

The kmz are KML files Zipped (compressed).

Make a copy of the file, and rename the extension.

cp myfile.kmz myfile.zip

Unzip it.

unzip myfile.zip or with an 'archive' application.

Locate the file doc.kml and open it with your favourite text editor, or install an xml editor such as XML Copy Editor because doc.kml is an xml file.

Locate the data you no longer want. Typically it will be between the tags <coordinates> and </coordinates>

Delete it.

There may be additional artefacts that you may, or will, want to delete. Such as

<LineString id="g7"> <altitudeMode>clampedToGround</altitudeMode> <coordinates>-115.478882259744,32.8305154499076,1 -115.47919506463,32.8301376995818,1 </coordinates> </LineString>

As long are there are no dangling or unmatched tags, and the final file contains enough of the requisite information you will have a usable kml file.

It's your decision if you should compress it again into a kmz.