GPSBabel 1.4.3 beta released!

Hello, Babel-Heads.

GPSBabel version 1.4.2 was fun. It's been downloaded nearly a million times in the year it's been active and in that time, we've collected a number of fixes and enhancements that we wanted to share. Here's a sampling:

• Fix translations for GUI on Windows. German, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, and a few others should now work. If your language is there, please contribute a translation. It's easy and doesn't require you to program.
• A new writer for geocaches in KML (Google Earth) provide better visualizations of high-density areas.
• Many KML improvements including validation fixes, aviations units, fixes for min/max alt.
• Adds iblue757 GPS support.
• Add support for Holux M-1200E GPS.
• Add the Minihomer variant of Skytraq.
• Add FlySight GPS support.
• Add Garmin FIT support.
• Add Land Air Sea format for GPS Tracking Key Pro.
• Many Navicache improvements.
• Fixes to track filter to not mangle tracks recorded at low speed when segement filter is applied.
  

For a more detailed list, see the changes in GPSBabel. For a mind-numbingly detailed list, see our source code.

GPSBabel 1.4.3 is in some ways about closure: it will not support PowerPC for Mac OS/X and it's the plan for this to be the last release built in C. When I started the code base that became GPSBabel in 2001, C was the obvious choice; C++ really wasn't viable yet and the limits of portable code weren't that restrictive for the GPS of the era. But now things like network connectivity and sub-second GPS are expected and there's no reason to not use better tools. So before we rip out a lot of the plumbing, we wanted to get a maintenance release in your hands.

 

Enjoy.

Robert Lipe,
Chief Babel-Head

 

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