Id: GPX file urls not working unless they actually end in .gpx

Created on 26 Aug 2018 · 8Comments · Source: openstreetmap/iD

Yesterday all were OK (version 2.10.0 I belived ?)
Today (version 2.11.0), when I select a GPS track (one of mine or from another) and choose "modified", when using firefox, waterfox or chrome, the track is not visible !

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Mahabarata

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A workaround for this is to click the download link on your trace page and drag the resulting GPX file to iD. It will display it and let you map until this gets fixed.

iandees on 28 Aug 2018

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I am confirming this issue. When I follow this path, I am not able to see the GPX track:
www.openstreetmap.com --> GPS Traces --> Edit

This makes it impossible to use ID to add new features using a GPX track.

mappingjunkie on 27 Aug 2018

I can confirm this issue and would like to request that it be addressed urgently. I am in the process of mapping some forest roads in Colorado / New Mexico and my memory of these roads will fade soon.

This was working properly only 2 - 3 days ago.

Here is a test case: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kevinp2/traces/2788683

I have tried this under:
MacOS + Safari
Windows 7 + Chrome

In both cases, I follow this process:
GPS Traces > See my traces > Click on the edit hyperlink

The map opens at the correct starting point of the trace, but the trace itself is nowhere to be seen.

kevinp2 on 28 Aug 2018

A workaround for this is to click the download link on your trace page and drag the resulting GPX file to iD. It will display it and let you map until this gets fixed.

iandees on 28 Aug 2018

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Cool, that workaround worked, thanks!

kevinp2 on 28 Aug 2018

Ah yeah, this bug was introduced in the latest release. Previously, iD tried to guess what kind of a data file it was based on its extension (.gpx, .kml, .geojson), but it would just assume that any file without an extension was a gpx file. I didn't know that other sites were relying on this behavior.

I'll put a fix in so that file urls passed in via the url like gpx= can continue to be assumed to be gpx.

bhousel on 29 Aug 2018

The problem is not this one.
Since the v2.11.0 it is not possible to display .gpx files, even if they have the .gpx extension.
The "custom map data" selection box is greyed since this release, and no .gpx file are displayed.
It worked fine with the previous release, (before the 26 august)