Getting started with RouteConverter

The essentials for working with a route, track or waypoint list.

Load a file

• Drag the file's icon from your desktop and drop it onto the RouteConverter window, or
• File → Open….

Pick what you're looking at

The dropdown above the position list switches between Route, Track and Waypoints — it decides how the positions are connected and drawn on the map.

Choose visible columns

Right-click the position list's header row, or use View → Show Column, to add or remove columns such as elevation, speed or time.

Move a position

Drag its marker on the map. The position list updates immediately.

Undo

Edit → Undo steps back through every change, one at a time.

Remove duplicate or unnecessary positions

Position → Delete Duplicate Positions… offers three ways to thin a list: by distance (drop points too close together), by order (keep every Nth point), or by significance (Douglas-Peucker — drops points that barely affect the shape of the track).

Split, merge and import

• Positionlist → Split cuts the list at the selected position, e.g. into daily stages.
• Positionlist → Merge… appends another open position list to this one.
• Positionlist → Import from a File… inserts positions read from a different file, without opening it as a separate tab.

Save

File → Save as… offers every writable format in a dropdown, independent of the format you opened.