shonkymaps – 3rd party maps able to be installed to Garmin devices and used by Garmin desktop apps and.contours_australia_5m_win32 – contour maps of Australia down to 5 meter resolution! (can be used as a map in MapSource and BaseCamp).TyreToTravel – route creation, saving, manipulation.GPSBabel – yet more conversion tools and handily available for Windows, OS/X and Linux.
JaVaWa RTWtool – conversion tools for routes, tracks, waypoints, ‘unflag’ routes and convert waypoints to a track or direct route.JaVaWa Device Manager – useful for backing up your Garmin device.gmapstogpx – cloud hosted online converter of google maps to the GPX format for ingestion by BaseCamp/MapSource.RouteConverter – was the go to app for reducing track points and route via points, the “delete duplicate positions” was THE standout feature of this app, now somewhat nobbled by the Gmaps API changes.GPS Track Editor – for when you simply can’t coax MapSource to combine certain track sections to create a new track then with WinGDB convert to a route.WinGDB3 – extremely useful apps, via point/route/track conversions FTW(!) especially the “invisible via point” options (removal of flags), unbelievably handy when coupled with MapSource to manage single route/track files.
#GPSBABEL TRACK SEGMENTS INSTALL#
You can install Garmin Training centre to fool it into allowing you to do an install
Taming a Garmin GPS isn’t as simple nor as straightforward as anyone in their sane (?) mind would like it to be.