No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
gpxpy has 446K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.6.2 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2012.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2023.
It is used by 103 tracked packages, including pymobiledevice3, geo-activity-playground and boatbuddy.
GitHub topics include gpx, gpx-library and gps.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 249 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
66
Adoption
66
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
700 days ago
Monthly downloads
445,766
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
445,766
Stars
1,105
Stars per 1k downloads
2.48
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
13,752
Month daily avg
14,859
Momentum
-7.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
950 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
53
Monthly downloads
445,766
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
70
Issue Burden
26.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
249d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
7.1K
macOS
1.5K
Windows
658
Python Versions
3.12
33.6%
2.9K
3.11
27.6%
2.4K
3.14
15.7%
1.4K
3.13
13.8%
1.2K
3.10
9.4%
812
Top Countries
1.
US
6.5K
US
2.
DE
419
DE
3.
CN
223
CN
4.
FR
208
FR
5.
SG
162
SG
6.
HK
114
HK
7.
NL
110
NL
8.
TW
91
TW
9.
GB
90
GB
10.
KR
77
KR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
103
- pymobiledevice3
- geo-activity-playground
- boatbuddy
- runrazor
- ngwidgets
- mapentity
- fittrackee
- mapillary-tools
- komootgpx
- gpxsheet
- gopro-overlay
- bikescout
- sport-activities-features
- gpx-player
- django-for-runners
- earthranger-client
- tempren
- gpx-poi-enricher
- bas-air-unit-network-dataset
- hyplan
- perdido
- i-search-app-mac
- gpxtable
- kompy
- gpxity
- mtbsync
- pyosmogps
- geo-track-analyzer
- i-search-app
- coordinates-label-photos
- mapilio-kit
- tcx2gpx
- pumapy
- gpmf
- gpx-link
- openroute-mcp
- orcestra
- gpxo
- cartograpy
- c2c-gpx
- majordome
- python-template-project
- workoutizer
- movinglines
- vitalog
- optictriage
- gpx-kml-converter
- tap-geo
- pixtrail
- pygarmin
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
First Release
March 21, 2012
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.6.2
Total Releases
35
Contributors
53
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Tomo Krajina
Python Versions
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh