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Would be worth a Google of "convert kml gpx". There are a number of free packages out there. You can even do it online at http://garmin.gps-data-team.com/poi_manager.php and at http://www.poieditor.com/poi_convert/kml-to-gpx/

 

For a standalone package for your PC, go to the gurus at http://www.gpsbabel.org/ -- that's the core for format conversion for GSAK. Converts pretty much anything to anything.

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Would be worth a Google of "convert kml gpx". There are a number of free packages out there. You can even do it online at http://garmin.gps-data-team.com/poi_manager.php and at http://www.poieditor.com/poi_convert/kml-to-gpx/

 

For a standalone package for your PC, go to the gurus at http://www.gpsbabel.org/ -- that's the core for format conversion for GSAK. Converts pretty much anything to anything.

 

Easiest is GPSbabelGUI, the version with a user interface if you're not comfortable with having to write the conversion command lines.

 

http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html,

 

Download the Windows version GPSbabel-1.3.6.zip and run the GPSBabelGUI.exe hands down the very best bar none!

 

Be safe.

 

N

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Thank all of you for your help and being so kind to answer this basic question that you have likely answered many times. Normally I would spend more time searching the data but the weather is getting better and I need to get a jump on doing some Elk scouting. It seems like most people want to convert from their gps to Google Earth which made me think you couldn't go the other way without complications. I like to locate a good looking area on Google Earth first and then move it to the gps. I will download the Babel software you recommended and save a chunk of money and not have to manually load coordinates any more.

Thanks,

Jay

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Not quite what you asked, but following on from your last post,

 

Google Earth will load a GPX file straight from your GPS, either drag it onto the google screen, or use the "open files" dialogue and change the file type to all, or gpx.

 

I use GPSUtility to upload Google earth paths to my garmin.

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Google Earth will load a GPX file straight from your GPS, either drag it onto the google screen, or use the "open files" dialogue and change the file type to all, or gpx.

 

When I found this out (not that long ago) it blew my mind!

 

It also saddened me: I pride myself in a) knowing about all the features to a program and b ) testing a program to the limits, so why I never just tried to open a gpx file in GE I'll never know. B) I'll just put it down to a very new feature update..... :)

 

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GPSBabel can process many files, but it processes only one "stream" at a time. SO if you want to read a KML, read a Lowrance, read a GDB, filter by some esoteric criteria, then writ the result to a GPX and a GDB, that's fine and you can do that in one shot.

 

If you want to convert a directory of one files to a pile of other format, just script the "obvious" loop in shell script/batch file/applescript/whatever to do them.

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Your script information is sliding right by my brain. For example if I wanted to batch 2 waypoints I enter "mile 10.kml,gravel pit.kml

Is this even close?

 

GPSBabel cannot do batch processing the way you want it to (at least, the way I think you want it to!). If you give it 4 files as an input, it will spit out ONE resultant gpx (or whatever) file, which will be an amalgamation of all the 4 files. It will not produce 4 separate files.

 

The suggestion was to script your own loop in whatever coding language you want, and within each loop you pass gpsbabel your file and make it convert to whatever you want, then the next loop you do the same and so on until you have processed all your files. If you've never scripted before then yeah, it's not that easy!!

 

(Apologies if this is not what you meant, and just ignore this post! :D )

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