GPSBabel is an incredibly useful tool for anyone who needs to convert waypoints, tracks, and routes between GPS receivers and mapping programs. It supports a wide range of formats, including TRL, VPR, MMO, BCR, TWL, SSZ, RWF, SRT, OVL, and DAT, and provides features such as short name synthesis, character set transformation, and Google Maps preview. It also offers debugging diagnostics for troubleshooting. Overall, GPSBabel is an essential tool for anyone who needs to move data between GPS receivers and mapping programs.
GPSBabel 1.7.0.31 could be downloaded from the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. The actual developer of the free software is Robert Lipe.
GPSBabel lies within Photo & Graphics Tools, more precisely Converters. The latest version of the program can be installed on PCs running Windows XP/XP Professional/Vista/7/8/10/11, 32-bit. The program's installer files are commonly found as gpsbabelfe.exe, gpsbabel.exe or GPSBabelGUI.exe etc. The most popular versions among GPSBabel users are 1.7, 1.5 and 1.4. According to the results of the Google Safe Browsing check, the developer's site is safe. Despite this, we recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus software.
From the developer:
GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs. It also has powerful manipulation tools for such data.
By flattening the Tower of Babel that the authors of various programs for manipulating GPS data have imposed upon us, it returns to us the ability to freely move our own waypoint data between the programs and hardware we choose to use.
You may want to check out more software, such as Prune, which might be similar to GPSBabel.
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