GPSBabel1.6.0

Note: Although Finder indicates no version number for this application, the developer refers to it as version 1.6.0.

Note: Now requires OS X 10.12 or later

• Added read support to GeoJSON
• Various work for WebKit and WebEngine as distros move (or not) to supported versions of Qt. Rework the way the JNI handles the callbacks between C++ and Javascript for our map.
• A fix for Geogrid OVL file reads.
• Numerous enhancements in the interpolation filter fixing altitudes, sub-second times, and times beyond 1970 and 2106.
• Change the Geocaching KML writer for Google Earthto remove several dead map types (Yahoo, Terraserver, Microsoft Research, StreetView) and securely request resources from Groundspeak HQ's web servers to better play with the web version of Google Earth that can't mix and match secure elements in the same view.
• Improve handling in NMEA file reader of short sentences, particularly of GPGSA.
• Major work in Garmin FIT format to handle V2 of these files, improving handling of UTC offsets, handle enhanced speed and enhanced altitude records, handling a VIRB Ultra 30, and fixing other reported bugs.
• Improve time handling for new UTC/GPS time shifts, adding a command line flag so you can now override without a rebuild.
• Make IGC better handle damaged input
• Fix crashes in PCX
• , improve handling of 'T' and 'R readers', improve date and time reading, parser improvements.
• Improvements in itrackU and TPO for rich dates and times, removed use of a fixed length buffer, improved test coverage
• Add Unicode argument support to Windows so arguments can be correctly ingested. Improve use of strings swapping between local 8-bit and UTF-8,
• Treat Garmin USB and serial
• devices mostly as Latin1.
• Correctly read diff and terr from geocaching loc filesThank you, Rick Richardson
• Synchronized ICAO country codes with Wikipedia #fixme add Linky-links
• Improvements in ESRI shape files, finally making this format useful without source edits.
• Fix Google Earth KML writer
• in realtime track mode. Also add support for Unicode in path and environment variables.
• Improve handling of UTF-8 in pathnames, command line and internally
• Improve Google Earth KML handling of on read
• Improve IGC writerfor more consistent rounding
• Improve Garmin GPI reader and writer to fix memory leaks, properly encode category , add support for reading GPI files with dual language strings, add support for Unicode page 65001 a.k.a. UTF-8., fixes to the writer to use correct length of multibyte characters,
• Fix XXXX as position filter could corrupt data structures. Fix where we underestimated speed time when there were multiple waypoints with the same name.
• Added support for Garmin Fit for version 2.0 developer fields in the definition messages.
• Finally remove long-deprecated options of -N, -c, and -l
• Allow unicsv to use all numeric grid references
• A near rewrite of the xcsv and unicsv readers and writers is well underway. This replaces a lot of finicky C code with implicit character set declarations and length issues with familiar container-based code.
• Enhance EXIF reader and writer to handle uncompressed thumbnails, rich time, and rational fraction types for higher fidelity
• Added KML 2.3 track element to the Google Extension gx: version of the same to the Google Earth KML reader and writer
• Enhance GPX to handle multiple URLs in GPX, KML, and other similar formats
• Fix xcsv reader
• to not ignoe LAT_DIR and LON_DIR. This caused Globalsat DG-500 grief.
• Enhance Garmin FITreader to handle absent speed or altitude. Observed on Garmin Oregon.
• Fix track filterto not crash if all the tracks were filtered out by the stop options. UTC time is now used in both stop and pack options. Split option now documents that quantities and units are both required.
• Teach Garmin FIT handlerto add track segment indicators for start button press events, allowing collections to not appear a a single continuous track.
• Add version 4 and 5 handling to Lowrance USR
• Many issues in Ozi w.r.t. legacy sloppiness of codecs in the upstream code. Nearly a rewritten module..