GPSBabel

GPSBabel is a cross-platform, free software to transfer routes, tracks, and waypoint data to and from consumer GPS units, and to convert between over a hundred types of GPS data formats.^[1] It has a command-line interface and a graphical interface for Windows, OS X, and Linux users.

GPSBabel is part of many Linux distributions including Debian GNU/Linux and Fedora, and also part of the 'fink' system for getting Unix software on Mac OS X.

Applications

• Many contributors to OpenStreetMap use GPSBabel to convert GPS track data from proprietary formats to the GPX format OpenStreetMap requires.
• GPSBabel is popular in the Geocaching community because it enables people with incompatible GPS units to share data.
• GPSBabel enables owners of many different brands of GPS units to view their GPS data in several popular consumer map programs, such as Google Earth and Microsoft Streets & Trips.

See also

• Open Street Map Data Format

External links

• GPSBabel site
• Gebabbel Qt4.3 Frontend for GPSBabel
• Prune can also act as a frontend for GPSBabel
• Chapter 15, "Speak in Geotongues: GPSBabel to the Rescue", Mapping Hacks:Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography, ISBN 0-596-00703-5, O'Reilly.
• GPS For Dummies, ISBN 0-7645-6933-3 (and author's blog)

References

• Make Magazine v07, pages 117–118, GPS Running Log.

1. ^ GPSBabel Supported formats