How to create GPX for IOS Simulator with Altitude and Court

Question

How can I (or can I) create a GPX file that will run on the IOS simulator and provide course and altitude information?

I have added tags in the hope they might give altitude but no joy there.

The larger issues I am having in dealing with the simulation of locations include: 1. The GPX documentation gives no semantic information; 2. The I am unaware of any documentation on how the IOS simulator responds to GPX files; 3. Many of the links to sites from this board for creating GPX files seem to create files with tags that the IOS simulator seems to ignore.

Thanks

Everrs

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to simulate the location of the device itself so that you can test location services code in your app? – Lime

This answer describes the basics of simulating location—you create wpt elements in a GPX file. I tried adding ele child elements under some waypoints to simulate elevation changes, but my CLLocationManagerDelegate just reports 0 as the altitude. So I'm not sure if it's possible to simulate altitude or course. – Lime

After 2 years, still there no answer for this question ? I'm having the same problem. – Hoban

Adding elevation tag don't seems to work for me but it's the GPX way of doing it so I guess that Apple still doesn't allow Simulator to work with it, here is the XML spec: topografix.com/GPX/1/1/#type_ptType – Bethanybethe

Please file radars asking for these changes. You can give me the radar numbers and I'll see if I can follow up. – Stylize

I can confirm that as of 10/25/2018, this is still a limitation of the XCode simulator. In my case I am trying to simulate a flight path, so being able to include elevation is essential. I ended up creating my of mock layer that took as input json waypoints. – Valise