Another track format (Fugawi .TRK)

[FeSt]

Hi Forum,
I have a lot of tracks in binary .TRK format (Fugawi 3.x) in my archives.
There are some quite cumbersome methods to convert them to .GPX (upload/download to/from GPSr, export as ASCII .txt…) but that is lot of work and converts only rudimentary (no altitude, no date/time, limited number of points…).

Some years ago attempts were made to include .TRK conversion support in GPSBABEL. Rudimentary c code was developed and tested, that can read .TRK and write .GPX/KML. But somehow the implementation was not finished:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ha...devel/2573
http://l4x.org/gps/fugawi_trk.html
http://l4x.org/gps/fugawi.c
GPSBABEL’s position: the effort to implement this in GPSBABEL is not justified.
The author’s position: take the code and use it under GNU-Licence!

As I’m not a c programmer I ask this community: Is there interest to finalize the conversion in RouteConverter?

I assume there are thousands of .TRK tracks out there that long for survival…...

[IlmariKrebs]

Have you ever tried http://http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/ This site seems to be quite active.

[FeSt]

Have you ever tried http://http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/ This site seems to be quite active.

Ilmari, Thanks for the hint. I tried but it didn't work:
GPSBABEL only supports Fugawi-WAYPOINT-Files, not Fugawi-TRACKS.
That's why I had contacted GPSBABEL, but they see no good reason to implement this, at least at the moment....