GPS Manager User Manual -- Files in Other Formats

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## Files in Other Formats

GPSMan can import and/or export data in the following formats:

- BGA for importation of British Glider Association DOS turnpoints files as waypoints; there are three optional parameters that filter which turnpoints to import: feature (also called place) that must be given exactly as it occurs in the file, findability as one of the letters A to D or G, and air activity as a 1 or 2 characters string. There is also a separate utility for converting BGA DOS files to GPSMan format.
- EasyGPS export format; only for importation of waypoints;
- Fugawi export format; only for importation of waypoints;
- GD2; for importation only;
- GPStrans;
- GPX; for importation and exportation; empty names for tracks and routes are accepted and replaced by generated names; The XML character encoding tag is supported but not Byte Order Marks (BOMs), the default encoding being UTF-8;
- GTrackMaker; for importation only; all waypoints, routes and tracks will be read from the file, the other information being discarded;
- IGC; for importation of tracks only; each file corresponds to a single track; there is a parameter for selecting either GPS altitude or barometric (pressure) altitude; positions in 2D fixes are discarded if the latitude and longitude are 0 and there was no previously accepted fix, or if there is a change of more than 5 degrees either in latitude or longitude from the previous fix; a valid fix after a discarded one will be marked as a segment starter in the track; the track name will be that of the file without any extension unless the name is in use; the remark field indicates that barometric altitudes were used if that is the case, and the file name if it is not the track name; a datum number of 999 is taken to mean "WGS 84";
- Kismet `.network` files with location information; networks with valid position information and of pre-configured types are imported as waypoints whose symbols will depend on the network type and encryption mode; each waypoint will have the average coordinates of the maximum and minimum locations of the corresponding network; names will be either the `SSID` name, or, if that is not acceptable or is in use, a generated name; generated names and channel information will appear in the remark fields; some options can be changed by editing the file `config.tcl` and redefining the `KISMETOPT` array elements; there is a single parameter for enabling the creation of a group with the imported waypoints for each type of network;
- KML files for use with Goggle map products, for exportation of waypoints, routes and tracks, and importation of waypoints;
- MapEdit Polish format files for importation of points of interest as waypoints; as no description was found the implementation is based on observation of sample files and may therefore fail; coordinates of each waypoint are taken as the average of the coordinates of the corresponding point of interest; repeated names are replaced by automatically generated ones;
- MapGuide text (not XML!) export formats from 2002 or 03/04 versions. Warning: undetected errors may occur if the version given when opening the file does not correspond to that of the file. This format is only for importation of routes; each file corresponds to a single route that will be split in several ones according to the maximum number of waypoints in a route; a number or identifier for the (first) route can be given when opening the file, as well as, a comment and a remark; if the original route yields more than one route, a suitable remark will be added to each route after the first one;
- MapSend;
- Meridian, only in the Magellan variant;
- NMEA real-time log; only in the Garmin variant, and only for for importation of tracks; each file is taken as a track;
- OziExplorer waypoints and tracks files; can be used for exportation of waypoints (not more than 1000 per file) and tracks (one per file);; and for importation of waypoints, the fields that are kept being the name, the position, the altitude, the comment and the date;
- Shapefile if the `gpsmanshp` Tcl/Tk library is available; version 1.1 or later is required; a single data type is kept in a file as described in the `gpsmanshp` documentation; data can be stored in 2 or 3 dimensions and GPSMan needs the following parameters when reading/writing a file in this format: dimension, position format (that must consist of a single number for each coordinate), zone (for grids), datum, distance unit and altitude unit. Warning: use of a UTM zone with points belonging to another zone may produce conversion errors that are not reported. In GPSMan versions before 6.1 there were two different names for 2 and 3 dimensions, the position format, the datum and altitude unit were assumed to be decimal degrees (DDD), "WGS 84", and metre. The information on track or polyline segments is saved to Shapefile files. With `gpsmanshp` versions 1.1 or later, routes, tracks and polylines can be read from Shapefile polylines or polygons. With version 1.2, items read in from a file not written by gpsmanshp will have in their remarks any fields of the .dbf file. There is also a separate utility for splitting the polylines in a Shapefile into different GPSMan files according to their coordinates.
- Simple Text for importation and exportation of tracks only; this is a format based on the Garmin Simple Text Output protocol and the following rules: for exportation, the position status is either `g` or `G`, for 2D or 3D, depending on altitude being defined, EPH is always `___` (undefined), the altitude is `_____` if undefined (position status `g`), the horizontal and vertical speeds are computed from the previous point if any, or undefined, two consecutive tracks are separated by two sentences with all fields as undefined, and two consecutive segments in a track are separated by a sentence with all fields undefined; for importation, lines with position status different from `g` or `G` are discarded, a single discarded line (not at the beginning of the file) is taken as a segment start marker, and two or more discarded lines in sequence (not at the beginning of the file) are taken as starting a new track.

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