GPSBabel tips

Users of GPS and related mapping programs find many powerful and interesting things to do with GPSBabel. Here we try to describe some of them. If you have suggestions for others, please contribute them to the mailing list.

• Help on building routes for arcs in mapping programslike Magellan MapSend and Garmin Mapsource.
• Learn to automate Geocaching downloads & conversions from your webrowser.
• Geocachers are a demanding crowd of esoteric features and a resourceful bunch for finding creating ways to solve their problems. Here are tips for using GPSBabel for group hunting, ignore lists, and others.
• Tips on marine and OS/X use.
• Alan Curry has good pages for Geocachers using GPSBabel.
• The geocacher known as "Chimbisimo." has a guide for Geocaching with a Mac.
• Francois Visagie offers a tip for retaining long names on Garmins.