Re: Garmin track file questions

GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote...
> If someone really want to manipulate it, several of the downloaded formats
> are pure text and really easy to decode/edit/manipulate. Oziexplorer .plt
> files for instance.

GPS Trackmaker has a text format that it can import as well as output which
I find useful for manipulating track data (using Excel or TextPad, which
allows you to select 2D blocks of text). Once data is back in GPSTM you can
export it in Garmin PCX5 format which can be opened in Mapsource (although
IIRC Garmin are going to remove this functionality from future versions).

If you buy the pro version of GPSTM (normal version is totally free) then it
has the facility to use spreadsheets directly. However most people don't
need the pro version and the author actually does his best to persuade you
NOT to buy it!

David


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