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GPSBabel 1.3.0
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The GPS tracklog blog links to GPSBabel and their newly released version 1.3.0. The official GPSBabel website: "GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial upload or download to a GPS unit such as those from Garmin and Magellan. By flattening the Tower of Babel that the authors of various programs for manipulating GPS data have imposed upon us, it returns to us the ability to freely move our own waypoint data between the programs and hardware we choose to use."
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Is part of Google Earth
(Score:4, Informative)Below is a forum comment [gsak.net] written by its creator Robert Lipe, who I've had the pleasure of communicating with and is a good guy:
"Google doesn't really promote this, but it's not really a secret either - Earth (and before it, Keyhole) uses GPSBabel for all its receiver communications, its GPX imports, and a few other file operations. Like GSAK [gsak.net], Earth invokes GPSBabel behind the scenes to do the conversions and hand it a consitently formattted file. For this reason, there is a direct correspondence between buttons on the GPS import dialogus and suboptions in GPSBabel's KML writer. Users of Earth can find many extra features in the KML writer plus additional imports and filters by bypassing Earth's own menus for such things and invoking GPSBabel either directly or via one of the GUIs."