rebo Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 I see more and more people here showing their tracks, routes, trails, waypoints mostly in Googles kmz file format. Wonderful and perfectly helpful! But speaking with some friends I found that some of them don't know how to use them properly, mainly on their GPS devices. Thus here is a mighty online tool which can handle almost all navigation file formats: http://www.gpsies.com/upload.do?uploadMode=convert. With this you'll find it pretty easy to convert for example a kmz file into a gpx file (used for e.g. Garmin equipment) with only 3 clicks. Then you can load it easily to your GPS unit and - voila - follow all these nice suggestions made by our TV fellows. Keep on exploring our nice host country ...! Dear admins, thanks a lot for not moving this post into the IT section where it will most probably not be read by most of the people concerned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBbUn Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Hi Rebo, Thanks for the info! I send data to my Garmin a different way. I have the free Garmin software, Garmin Basecamp installed. A kmz or kml file can be opened in Basecamp, and from there a simple right click and "Send to device". Happy riding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiangmaiexpat Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 (edited) May I recommend GPSBabel for that purpose? It's open-source, runs on Windows and Linux, and converts tracks, routes, and waypoints of almost any GPS format into the widely used gpx/kml/kmz formats (and vice-versa of course). Cheers, CM-Expat Edited December 4, 2012 by chiangmaiexpat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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