How do I get wind speed and direction data from a GPX file?
GPX files don’t have that info. If the GPX is simply a route, there’s not even a date, so impossible to have weather info. If it is a gpx from an activity, there’s more dat like HR, speed, etc. But FIT or TCX have more data when it comes to activities and are thus preferred if you can export different types.
What usually happens is that location and heading info is extracted from the GPS data, and that data is then used to get weather information from a weather API with an app. That’s what Intervals does.
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Thanks for the reply. I have a FIT file that was uploaded directly from Wahoo. It contains various data (speed, temperature, time, heart rate, etc.). At intervals, weather data such as wind speed and direction is also displayed for this activity. Now I would like to download this information in a GPX file so that I can then incorporate it into a video (using RaceRender). From your answer, I understand that the weather data (wind) cannot be included in a GPX file?
You can use the API and download the weather streams - if you are a supporter, as I think this is a „supporter-only“ feature.
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