c't plant RouteConverter auf Software CD zu bringen

Ich bekam jüngst eine EMail

das c't magazin wird im April 2008 eine Spezialausgabe zum Thema Mac veröffentlichen. Dem Heft wird eine CD-ROM mit entsprechender Free- und Shareware beiliegen. Ihr Programm "RouteConverter" ist Teil unserer Vorauswahl.

Wenn das nichts ist :-)

c't plant RouteConverter auf Software CD zu bringen

Ich bekam jüngst eine Email:

das c't magazin wird im April 2008 eine Spezialausgabe zum Thema Mac
veröffentlichen. Dem Heft wird eine CD-ROM mit entsprechender Free-
und Shareware beiliegen. Ihr Programm "RouteConverter"
ist Teil unserer Vorauswahl.

Wenn das nichts ist :-)

French tutorial

Vincent Di Sanzo has prepared a french tutorial for RouteConverter. Even if you are not a french speaker, the list of supported formats is of value.

Free Geography Tools

Leszek from Free Geography Tools just posted a really nice blog article about RouteConverter. Have a look at it.

Btw, Leszek mentioned: "While it still doesn’t support as many formats as ITNConv..." Do you miss some important formats?

1.15 is ready

The latest version 1.15 from 01/26/08

• allows to modify positions on the map with drag-and-drop
• allows to create new positions
• provides a slider with arrows to let the user determine how the space is divided between the map and the position list
• reads and writes GoPal Track (*.trk) files
• reads and writes Navigon Mobile Navigator 6 Favorites (*.storage) files
• zoomes into the map as close as possible when opening files
• allows to use the scroll wheel to zoom into and out of the map
• tries to open the window as exactly as it was closed before - even if it was maximized
• transforms comments from Route 66 POI files to upper and lowercase
• describes NMEA-files now as Track and not as Route
• shows more informationen about errors, if the map cannot be initialized
• fixes a fatal bug, which prevented write GPX- and KML-files
• fixes a bug when writing MagicMaps (*.pth) files, which led to positions that were 100-200m too far west and 100-200m too far south
• fixes several problems when writing Top50 OVL ASC (*.ovl) files, which could not be read by MagicMaps and GeoGrid Viewer

This has been a huge step: For the first time, you can edit routes!

1.14 is ready

The latest version 1.14 from 12/20/07

• reads and writes MagicMaps (*.pth) files
• reads and writes Top50 OVL ASC/GeoGrid Viewer (*.ovl) files
• reads and writes Garmin POI (*.gpi) files
• reads and writes Garmin POI Database (*.xcsv) files
• better processes ITN-files written by Tyre
• allows to repeat the initialization of the map view, if no connection to Google Maps was established during the program start
• fixes a bug while reading Google Maps URLs that have been modified by Firefox or Internet Explorer
• fixes a bug while writing Google Maps URLs that were not complete and thus weren't recognized by Google Maps

Maybe that's the last release for this year...

Top50 OVL, MagicMaps, GPI, Garmin POI DB

Inzwischen gibt es eine Vorabversion von RouteConverter, die Top50 OVL ASC, MagicMaps, GPI und Garmin POI DB Dateien lesen kann. Wer Interesse hat kann sich bei mir melden und bekommt eine Testversion zugeschickt.