MagicMaps (.ikt, .pth, .txt)

MagicMaps is a family of three file types from MagicMaps' Tour Explorer desktop software and its MagicMaps2Go companion app: .ikt projects, .pth tours and .txt tracks.

At a glance

History

MagicMaps (part of MTS Schrode AG, Reutlingen, Germany) makes Tour Explorer, hiking and cycling route-planning software now in its 8th generation, alongside GNSS surveying hardware. MagicMaps2Go, the PDA/Windows-Mobile app that produced the .txt track format, has since been retired to the vendor's software archive; no public introduction date is published for any of the three file types.

Where it is used

All three formats are native to MagicMaps' own software: .ikt and .pth are saved and opened by Tour Explorer, .txt was written by MagicMaps2Go for transferring recorded tracks back to a PDA-era device. None is used outside the MagicMaps ecosystem.

Structure

No public specification exists for any of the three; this is read directly from RouteConverter's own parser. .txt (MagicMaps2Go) is a plain-text line format, one track point per line: latitude, longitude, altitude, date and time separated by spaces. .pth (MagicMaps Tour) is also plain text, a looser name:value and coordinate line format. .ikt (MagicMaps Project) is XML, rooted in a Root element tagged FileFormat="IK3D-Project-File", holding a Header (project name, description) and a Content section of MMGeoObjects, each with a type, name, draw style and a list of PathPoints/Point entries carrying X/Y coordinates — and can hold more than one named project per file.

How widespread

Narrow and tied entirely to MagicMaps' own customer base; none of the three formats appears in general-purpose GPS software.

RouteConverter support

Specifications and documentation

• MagicMaps
• MagicMaps Tour Explorer FAQ