I have the habit to log my route when I'm traveling, hiking or sometimes even shopping in town. The GPX track is useful for geotagging photos or simply for understanding where I have been. Yesterday I had the idea to convert a GPX track to something that gives me an overview about interesting places nearby my track. So I fiddled a little with Python and wrote a script that
- extracts the lat/lon coordinates from a GPX file
- sends these coordinates to the Geonames database
- extracts text from the Geonames reply
- creates a very basic HTML page with some describing text about the interesting places nearby and a link to Wikipedia.
The result looks as follows:
The code is available on my Github. Besides the script you need the geopy python module and a login for Geonames.