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Prune 4.1 Open Source GPS Tool Released
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The Free Geography Tools website discuss the release of Prune 4.1, an open source GPS tool. From the Prune website: "Prune is an application for managing coordinate data from GPS systems. Basically it's a tool to let you play with your GPS data after you get home from your trip. It can load data from arbitrary text-based formats (for example, any tab-separated or comma-separated file) or Xml, display the data (as top-down view and altitude profile), edit this data (for example delete points and ranges, sort waypoints, compress tracks), and save the data (in various text-based formats). It can also export data as a Kml file (Keyhole Markup Language) or a Gpx file, or as Kml/Kmz for import into Google Earth." From the blog: " Version 4.1 is now out, and it now can automatically correlate and tag photos with data from a GPX track file."
Prune was mentioned before. Somewhat related, the open source GPSBabel software released their version 1.3.5 beta last week.
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Prune 4.1 Open Source GPS Tool Released
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