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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Online GPS Visualizer for Free

GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Online menus include : DRAW A MAP, DRAW A PROFILE, CONVERT A FILE (GPS file to plain text or GPX), Geocode an address, Look up elevations, Google Earth overlays, Split a Forerunner file, Calculators (coordinates, distance, routes, range of rings around a point), and GPSBabel.

GPS Visualizer can read data files from many different sources, including but not limited to: GPX (a standard format used with many devices and programs, including Garmin's eTrex, GPSMAP, Oregon, Dakota, Colorado, & NĂ¼vi series), Google Earth (.kml/.kmz), Geocaching.com (.loc), FAI/IGC glider logs, MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets, XML feeds, Garmin Forerunner (.xml/.hst/.tcx), Timex Trainer, OziExplorer, Cetus GPS, PathAway, cotoGPS, CompeGPS, TomTom (.pgl), IGN Rando (.rdn), Emtac Trine, Suunto X9/X9i (.sdf), Fugawi, NetStumbler, and of course tab-delimited or comma-separated text.

Help keep GPS Visualizer free

GPS Visualizer is a free service and hopefully always will be; however, if you find it interesting, time-saving, or just plain fun, you can say "thanks" -- and encourage further development -- by clicking the button appear on their homepage and making a contribution via credit card or PayPal. Or, you could send an Amazon wish list item.