Blogger Posts - Adding a Code Box

This is a quick post I wanted to make, detailing how to add a code box to Blogger....something I've wanted to do for a while now.  Since Blogger allows users to easily toggle between the "Compose" and "HTML" post views, adding a code box can be easily achieved with the following bit of code:

<textarea name="textarea" cols="40" rows="4" wrap="VIRTUAL">
YOUR CODE GOES HERE
< /textarea>

The resulting code box looks like this:
#Script for writing results to text file #Tim Hohn 11/15/2017 #import modules import os.path, time, sys #Write Results to Text former, sys.stdout = sys.stdout, open('Watchdog_Results.txt', 'w') #print date modified for specified file directory #getmtime returns the time of last modification of the path print("FILE NAME - Last modified: %s" % time.ctime(os.path.getmtime("File_Path_Here"))) #Write Results to Text and Close results, sys.stdout = sys.stdout, former results.close()

The code box can be height and width adjusted by modifying the cols="100" and rows="50" values to your liking.

The final result is a tidy little place to paste code, which I greatly prefer to pasting the code directly to the post or boxing the code in with bounding lines.  This should come in very handy for future posts, and should increase the readability of any code I may copy to blogger as well.

Connecting the Dots - Garmin Watch to AGOL

For Christmas, my wife bought me a Garmin Forerunner 35 to assist with my training leading up to Grandma's Marathon in Duluth this summer. So far, I've really enjoyed everything the Forerunner 35 has to offer and I've been pleasantly surprised with how quickly it syncs to mobile devices.

Since I also now have a personal AGOL license, I wanted to play around with uploading some of my watch data and creating a web map to catalog my training routes.  The Garmin Connect App already does this (and much more), but I wanted an excuse to play around in AGOL.

After downloading a recent .gpx file from the Garmin Connect website, I was able to use the GPX to Features tool to bring these feature points into ArcMap.

GPX to Features Tool

Output points from the .gpx file

While the points are interesting visually, my primary goal was to save these routes as line features.  To accomplish this, the Points to Line tool enabled me to connect these points (which have a Date/Time field) chronologically to create a continuous route line.

Points to Line tool, with Date/Time as the sort field

Output line after running the Points to Line tool

So, there you have it, a relatively simple set of procedures to get .gpx data off of a running watch and into ArcMap!  I loaded the data into an AGOL test map, which can be found on the Running tab of this blog, for those interested in seeing the results! More routes to come!