1.24 is ready

I've just released the latest RouteConverter version 1.24 with the following features:

• reads and writes Navigon Mobile Navigator 7 (*.freshroute) files
• reads and writes Google Earth 5 (*.kml und *.kmz) files
• reads more information from Google Maps-URLs, if you append &output=kml to it
• reads more information from saved emails containing Google Maps-URLs
• writes Google Earth (*.kmz) files
• [more]

This is how RouteConverter looks like:

Garmin changed the GDB and GPI formats recently

... and the current version of gpsbabel does not support these changes. And as RouteConverter relies on gpsbabel for these formats, they cannot be read with RouteConverter.

There are three solutions to this problem:

• switch back to an older version of Garmin MapSource


• beg the gpsbabel developers to support the latest changes


• find another tool, that reads files with the latest changes and ask me to use it in RouteConverter

RouteConverter on a 10.4.11 mac

A user wrote me (and I guess this could be interesting for more mac users):

I have the program RouteconverterMac 1.23 in front of me, but where to search for a routeconverter.log file, and where is the user's temporary directory?

But I don't own a mac and don't know where the temporary directory is. Maybe its /tmp ? The file you need to search for is called "RouteConverter.log"

My mac laptop runs the 10.4.11 version.

I guess that's the reason why the embedded gpsbabel does not work for you: It has been compiled for 10.5.2. Try to find a 10.4 version of gpsbabel or compile gpsbabel for your OS version (http://www.google.de/search?q=gpsbabel+mac+os+x+10.4).

Then configure the path to the gpsbabel binary on the "Misc" tab of RouteConverter.