klickTel Routenplaner 2009 (.krt)
A .krt file is a route exported from klickTel Routenplaner 2009, a German route-planning program sold on CD-ROM alongside klickTel's phone- and address-directory products.
At a glance
| Extension | .krt |
| Encoding | xml |
| By | klickTel AG |
History
klickTel AG has been a wholly owned subsidiary of what is now 11880 Internet Services AG (then telegate AG) since 2008; the parent company was founded in 1999. klickTel itself sold digital phone books, business directories and route-planning software on CD-ROM. No publication date specific to the .krt format itself is documented beyond the "2009" in this Routenplaner edition's own product name.
Where it is used
Routenplaner 2009 exported a planned multi-stop route as a .krt file for use elsewhere; the klickTel brand itself has since moved on from CD-ROM software to an online reverse phone-number and address lookup service.
Structure
A .krt file is XML, rooted at a kDRoute element with a Stations list. Each station carries an address (street, house number, postal code, city, district, country code) and a Point with latitude/longitude as strings plus an internal EdgeReference (edge, tile, node, country and database version numbers) tying the station to klickTel's own road-network database — RouteConverter reads the address and coordinates but has no use for the routing-internal edge reference.
How widespread
A CD-ROM-era, single-route planning format from a now-discontinued product line; klickTel's current, unrelated business is an online phone- and address-directory service.
RouteConverter support
| Reads | klickTel Routenplaner 2009 |
| Writes | klickTel Routenplaner 2009 |
RouteConverter reads and writes klickTel Routenplaner 2009 routes as a single, non-multi-route file; on write it does not yet fill in the decomposed street/house-number/postal-code/city/country fields per station — this is marked as a known limitation directly in the source (KlickTelRouteFormat's own // TODO write decomposed description).