Guides
12Read these once and the rest of the program makes sense.
How things work
- Automatic file format detection Read →
- Elevation data explained Where SRTM, Ferranti's DEM, Sonny's LiDAR data and GeoNames elevation actually come from, and how they differ. Read →
- Exploring GeoJSON: A Powerful Format for Geospatial Data Read →
- How RouteConverter Bridges the Gap Read →
- Maximum Zoom Levels Read →
- Understanding the "Big Three": Waypoints, Tracks, and Routes Read →
Set up and connect
- BRouter and GraphHopper — offline routing without Google What BRouter and GraphHopper are, how they differ, and how RouteConverter uses them to calculate a route offline. Read →
- Downloaded RouteConverter for Windows — What Now? Downloaded RouteConverter for Windows? Get past the browser warning and the SmartScreen prompt, and make your first GPS file conversion. Read →
- mapsforge — the offline map behind RouteConverter What mapsforge is, how RouteConverter uses it for offline maps, themes and place search. Read →
- Navigon Cruiser: The Ultimate Navigation App for Motorcyclists Read →
- Saved Places from Google Maps How to export your saved places and lists from Google Maps via Takeout and convert the JSON to GPX, KML or CSV with the free RouteConverter. Step by step. Read →
- See or change RouteConverter's language The 23 languages currently available, and where to change them in the app. Read →
Reference
31One page per screen, grouped the way the program is.
First steps 7
- Getting started with RouteConverterLoad, edit and save a file — the basic moves before anything else
- Editing positions on the mapWhat a click, shift-click, ctrl-click and drag do on the map
- Complete elevation dataFill in missing elevation for positions from SRTM, GeoNames or Google…
- Find places and complete addressesInsert a position by searching a place name, or fill in an address from…
- CSV filesRead and write comma- or semicolon-separated CSV files with a header row
- Microsoft Excel filesRead and write Excel 97-2003 (.xls) and Excel 2007+ (.xlsx) workbooks
- Google Maps Timeline exportsExport Google Maps Timeline from the phone and read it as day tracks…
The main panels 2
Dialogs 12
Route catalog 3
Photos and POI 2
Outside services 2
When something is wrong 3
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