---
name: "rel2gpx"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rel2gpx"
version: "0.27-4"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rel2gpx"
---

# rel2gpx(1)

create GPX-Tracks from OSM relation

## NAME

rel2gpx - create GPX-Tracks from OSM relation

## SYNOPSIS

**rel2gpx** \[*options*\] \<*relation-Id*\>

## DESCRIPTION

This script can download GPX tracks from a given OSM relation to feed it to your GPS device.  Most relations are not ordered in one single line.  The script tries to bring all parts into a reasonable order.

## OPTIONS

-

  Relation-Id

-

  OSM Id of the to be exported relation. See also pption **-f**

**-i** file

-

  Read OSM-data from local file.  If this option is missing data will be fetched from openstreetmap.org

**-x** file

-

  write XML-file in osm-format, which contains the data of all objects of the relation (only in connection with **-i**).

**-r** typ

-

  Work on all relations of type=route and route=typ (only in connection with **-i**). Possible values for typ: bicycle, hiking, train.

**-f** file

-

  Read relation-Ids from file (only in connection with **-i**).  The text file can contain one Id per line. Lines starting with "#" will be ignored.  You can also add comments to data lines.

**-g**

-

  Create a GPX track file.

**-p**

-

  Enable output of various plausibility checks.

**-s**

-

  Enable statistics output to STDOUT

**-w**

-

  Output statistics and plausibility checks into HTML file

**-o**

-

  Respect directions (oneway, forward/backward).

-

  The name of the GPX and HTML file will be created from the name of the relation inside the OSM database.  If this does not exist the relation-Id will be used as name.  When using options **-f** or **-i** the name will be created from the relation list or the OSM-file respectively.

## SEE ALSO

Homepage is only in German:\
   http://mr-unseld.de/?q=de/node/170

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Andreas Tille \<tille@debian.org\> for the Debian distribution but can be freely used for any other purpose.