Discussion forum

Some might have spotted it: There is a new discussion forum online since about 3 weeks. So far, there have been some 12 to 14 users and the same number of topics, but maybe this increases as the usage of RouteConverter increases.

Feel free to join.

1.8 is ready

The latest version 1.8 from 08/16/07

• reads and writes Navigon Mobile Navigator 5 (*.rte) files
• reads and converts date and time from GPX, Google Earth and Tripmaster ITN,GPX log files
• reads POIs that have been loaded onto or modified on a Navigon-device
• faster reads and writes NMEA 0183 sentences - by a factor of 8 to 10
• supports the NMEA 0183 sentences RMC, GGA, WPL and ZDA
• offers tooltips for the functionality to remove routes/tracks/waypoint lists from the current file
• fixes a bug which resulted in an altitude of 2147483646 metern if there was no altitude information present
• fixes a bug in the Motorrad Tourenplaner Format which left the type of waypoints empty and did not set them to zero
• fixes a bug which always led to leading and trailing spaces when editing the comments

NMEA logs

A while ago, I've implemented NMEA log support for RouteConverter by using GPSBabel. I've implemented this by converting NMEA to GPX with GPSBabel and parsing GPX. For long tracks with tens of thounds of NMEA sequences, this setup can consume a lot of time and memory.

Reimplementing this with just support for GGA sentences gave a speedup of factor 10, which shows for me that it could be worth it. On the other hand there are a lot of different sentence types.

What do you think? Is GGA and RMC enough?

1.7 is ready

The latest version 1.7 from 07/02/08

• offers a map view onto the positions of routes, tracks and waypoints
• allows to directly edit the description of positions by double clicking into the position list
• recognizes Tripmaster 1.4 and 1.8 tracks captured in 'itn' and 'gpx' formats more reliably
• optimizes the behaviour when moving several positions to the top or the bottom of the position list by keeping the original order of the selected positions
• fixes a bug which showed german window titles even though the language was english
• fixes a bug which showed the wrong format name for formats that are based on GPSBabel
• fixes a bug of the Google Maps format, where longitude and latitude were exchanged
• fixes a bug of the BCR format, which wrote the descriptions of the first and last position such that the Motorrad Tourenplaner didn't recognize them

Have a look at the map view. Do you like it?