Potential issue when exporting gpx

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Dinosaur here who still prefers the classic version of ORS map website.

Usually, when I export to .gpx, I have no problem opening it in SublimeText (the code appears structured and with colors) nor importing it to Garmin Connect app on Android.

Recently, Classic ORS exported a “Normal Bike” itinerary with the following peculiarities:

  1. Starts with a UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF).
  2. The entire 123 KB GPX is on a single line, with no line breaks at all.
  3. No XML declaration such as <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

which means the code appeared without any structure or colors in SublimeText and Garmin Connect couldn’t import it.

ChatGPT fixed it for me by doing this:

  • UTF-8 without BOM
  • explicit XML declaration
  • normal line breaks and indentation

Problem solved.

Hope that helps.

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