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I downloaded a GPX file from
http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/
which is an Australian Government site giving information about the location of public toilets.

But it gives error messages when trying to load into either MapSource or PoiLoader.

Can any GPX experts please advise what the problem might be?
Note that this forum software seems to strip out leading spaces on each line but I presume that is of no consequence.

Content of file follows:

<xml>
<gpx>
<metadata>
<name>My Toilet Map</name>
<desc>Public toilet locations from the National Public Toilet Map, downloaded from My Toilet Map.</desc>
<author>
<name>National Public Toilet Map</name>
<email>
<link>
<text>National Public Toilet Map</text>
<type>text/html</type>
</link>
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2007</year>
<license>http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/staticpage.aspx?page=copyright</license>
</copyright>
<link>
<text>National Public Toilet Map</text>
<type>text/html</type>
</link>
<time>2007-12-05 22:16:12Z</time>
<keywords>Australia, public toilet, lavatory, restroom</keywords>
<bounds>
</metadata>
<wpt>
<time>2007-02-14 19:09:10Z</time>
<name>Mona Vale Community Centre</name>
<desc>Park Street</desc>
<src>National Public Toilet Map</src>
<link>
<sym>dot</sym>
<type>Toilet</type>
</wpt>
<wpt>
<time>2007-02-14 19:09:12Z</time>
<name>Mona Vale Surf Life Saving Club</name>
<desc>Surfview Road</desc>
<src>National Public Toilet Map</src>
<link>
<sym>dot</sym>
<type>Toilet</type>
</wpt>
<wpt>
<time>2007-02-14 19:09:15Z</time>
<name>Mona Vale Beach Reserve</name>
<desc>Seabeach Avenue</desc>
<src>National Public Toilet Map</src>
<link>
<sym>dot</sym>
<type>Toilet</type>
</wpt>
<wpt>
<time>2007-02-14 19:10:06Z</time>
<name>Kitchener Park 1</name>
<desc>Pittwater Road</desc>
<src>National Public Toilet Map</src>
<link>
<sym>dot</sym>
<type>Toilet</type>
</wpt>
<wpt>
<time>2007-02-14 19:24:02Z</time>
<name>Winnererremy Bay Foreshore Reserve</name>
<desc>2 Mona Street</desc>
<src>National Public Toilet Map</src>
<link>
<sym>dot</sym>
<type>Toilet</type>
</wpt>
</gpx>

Download EasyGPS and try to open the file there. It will indicate which tags are not matched and what line the problem is on. It only took about five minutes to make it work in EasyGPS.

MapSource might not like it because it doesn't contain any location info. There may be other problems, but there wouldn't be much point in opening it in MapSource without lat and lon. The waypoints in a Garmin produced gpx file have the form:

<wpt>
<ele>35.934692</ele>
<name>Garmin Europe</name>
<sym>Flag, Blue</sym>
</wpt>

Thanks Allory for the link to EasyGPS. I find I can make the downloaded files useable just by loading them into EasyGPS and saving them.

I had not noticed the lack of any lat/long information in the example I posted. It is odd that other files downloaded later did contain position information so there must have been something strange going on when I first logged on to the site.

With your help I have achieved my objective and I now have stored over 1500 toilets covering the whole city.

joe99

I'm glad you got it figured out because that's a very funny statement.