First the website: The new tour tries to visually show highlights of RouteConverter while the completely rewritten features section aims at describing all features in detail.
Then the software:
- reads and writes Navigon Mobile Navigator (*.route) files
- reads broken Navilink (*.sbp) files without a header and with sometimes 31 bytes instead of 32 for a position
- reads NMEA 0183 Sentences (*.nmea) even if the coordinates contain spaces
- writes Google Earth 5 (*.kml) files with kilometer marks and a speed bar
- writes the track extensions for Google Earth 5 (*.kml) files supporting timestamps for tracks
- supports undo and redo when adding, removing, renaming position lists
- displays elevation, distances and speed in miles and feet (Statute) or meters (Metric)
- displays date and time in a timezone selected by the user with the machines timezone as a default
- allows naming pattern for new or completed positions: Description only, Number only, Number directly followed by description and Number, a space then description
- offers a feedback functionality which allows to send error reports and broken files from the help menu
- uses Google Maps API V3 bringing a lot of features from maps.google.com to RouteConverter
- allows to drag at routes to define waypoints
- allows to avoid toll roads when routing
- allows experimental routing for bicycles in the United States
- allows to scroll the map with cursor keys
- offers a context menu to the map view
- offers a new selection model for the map: a mouse click selects nearby positions, shift + mouse click extends the current selection, ctrl + mouse click adds a position, ctrl + alt + mouse click removes a position
- offers a new interactive zoom model for the map: pressing 'z' or clicking the new zoom symbol on the left side allow to define a map area to zoom in
- offers a new interactive selection model for the map: pressing 's' or clicking the new selection control on the left side allow to define a map area where all positions are selected
- extracts speed and heading from Qstarz BT-Q1000 (*.gpx) files
- uses the latest Eclipse SWT 3.7 library making setup on recent Linux distributions easier
- removes file upload to various online services as it was actually never used
- tries to initialize the map forever if the Internet connection is temporarily unavailable
- allows to use the Outdoor Active Map
- uses tile.opencyclemap.org for the popular Cycle map
- allows to configure alternative server URLs other than maps.google.com
- fixes a bug that CompeGPS Data cannot be loaded into a MagicMaps2Go position list
- fixes a timezone display bug for XML-based formats
- fixes a bug that shortened file names after the user has typed them
- fixes a bug that grew the selection when positions were inserted
- fixes a bug when changes on different positions lists where undone on the currently visible position list
- fixes a bug when not copying positions before putting them into the clipboard
- fixes a bug when file extensions where removed twice when writing files
- fixes a bug when copying positions between RouteConverter instances failed
