#Close gpsbabel how to#

Transfer a track to my Garmin GPS device. Take a file from Google Earth, and create a gpx file with multiple tracks, but with each track containing no more than n points, with n=500 for my device.

In this mode, the script will produce a single file with multiple tracks in it. Take one or more tracks from the dutch “Fietsrouteplanner” (bicycle route builder) in gpx format, and turn it into a Google Earth file.

This mode will reate a single track, that is: separate parts of the file will be glued together, to compensate for loss of reception or the tea-break. I prefer to transfer this file, rather than read the track-log from the device. Note that my GPS device already creates a track log in gpx format, straight on the µ-SD card. Take a track from my Garmin handheld GPS device, and translate it into something Google Earth will read. When developing “Whereabouts”, I hade the following use scenarios in mind: After playing with the options for a while, I found a set of option that produced something pretty close to what I wanted, and I took it from there. Besides, I like the output of GPS Visualizer, and GPSBabel just adds too much information.

#Close gpsbabel how to#

Practically all conversions of GPS-related data can be done with GPSBabel, but it has too much options, and I grew tired of figuring out how to achieve what I wanted it to do. The “Whereabouts” Python script is a helper tool to handle geolocated data more easily. This software is licenced under the CC-GNU GPL.