Free Geography Tools

Ogle Earth posts about ITNConv, a program that converts from one GPS format to another. It opens:

- Autoroute Express (.axe, .axg)
- Streets & Trips (.est)
- MapPoint (.ptm)
- MapSource (.gdb, .mps)
- TomTom 3, 5 & 6, Go, Rider, One (.itn, .ov2)
- Navigon MN|4, MN|5 & MN|6 (.rte)
- Destinator PN (.dat)
- Marco Polo, Falk Navigator, Motorrad Tourenplaner & OnRoute (.bcr)
- GPS eXchange (.gpx)
- GPX MapSource (.gpx)
- Garmin PCX5 (CartoExploreur) (.rte)
- Magellan SD (Meridian et eXplorist) (.rte, .upt)
- ViaMichelin (.xvm)
- IGN Rando (.rdn)
- OziExplorer (.rte)
- OziExplorer CE (.rt2)
- Google Earth (.kml)
- CSV (Longitude,Latitude,Comments)

And writes in:

- Autoroute Express (.axe) (Version 2004 and higher)
- TomTom 3, 5 & 6, Go, Rider, One (.itn)
- Navigon MN|4, MN|5 & MN|6 (.rte)
- Destinator PN (.dat)
- Marco Polo, Falk Navigator, Motorrad Tourenplaner & OnRoute (.bcr)
- GPS eXchange (.gpx)
- GPX MapSource (.gpx)
- Garmin PCX5 (CartoExploreur) (.rte)
- Magellan SD (Meridian et eXplorist) (.rte)
- ViaMichelin (.xvm)
- IGN Rando (.rdn)
- OziExplorer (.rte)
- OziExplorer CE (.rt2)
- XML Location (.loc)
- Google Earth (.kml)
- CSV (Longitude,Latitude,Comments)

Not as many as GPSBabel, but it does a few that GPSBabel doesn’t, and the interface is a bit easier to handle:

It’s very much point-oriented, though. If you convert a GPX file with several tracks into a KML file, it will connect the endpoints of successive tracks to create one single, long track. Similarly, if you convert a set of waypoints into KML, it will connect all the points sequentially into a single long track (but you can always turn the track off in Google Earth, or delete it entirely). GPSBabel handles tracks better.

One nice touch is the built-in editor that loads the points into a Google Maps interface, where you can re-label them, move them around, add or delete points, search, find get directions, etc.. You can even create a set of points, and then save them in one of the supported formats:

Note: The website is in French, but the program itself is in English. Look for the download at the left under “Telechargement”, or at the bottom labeled “Télécharger la version Windows“.