What is RouteConverter?

RouteConverter is a popular open source tool to display, edit, enrich and convert routes, tracks and waypoints licensed under the GNU Public License. See http://www.routeconverter.com/about/ for details about features, supported formats and languages, screenshots, frequently asked questions and how you can help.

Downloads

Stable releases are available at http://www.routeconverter.com/releases/

Prereleases are frequently offered at http://www.routeconverter.com/prereleases/

If you want to contribute

Patches and pull requests are always welcome. If you minimize your diff, it's more likely that your contribution will be applied to the code base. Please stick to the code standards and formatting that you run across. And don't forget to add tests for your changes ;-)

CONTRIBUTORS.txt provides a list of the people who helped developing RouteConverter.

How to develop for RouteConverter

1. Install a recent Java SDK, version 8 or later, from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/

2. Clone RouteConverter from github:

   git clone git@github.com:cpesch/RouteConverter.git
   

3. Open RouteConverter sources in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

   IntelliJ

   • Install IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition from http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
   • Choose "File/Open Project..." and the root pom.xml.
   • In "Preferences/GUI Designer" choose "Generate GUI to Java source code" and disable "Automatically copy form runtime classes to the output directory"

   Eclipse

   • Install Eclipse IDE for Java Developers from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
   • Install m2eclipse from http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e/
   • Choose "File/Import..." and "General/Maven Projects" and the root directory.

   NetBeans

   • Install NetBeans IDE Java SE from http://netbeans.org/downloads/
   • Install Git via "My NetBeans > Install Plugins"
   • Choose "Open Project..." and the root directory.

4. Let JAVA_HOME refer to the Java SDK

   set JAVA_HOME=c:\Programm Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_271
   

   Put JAVA_HOME into your PATH

   set %PATH%=%JAVA_HOME%:%PATH%
   

5. Build RouteConverter with the Maven wrapper

   mvnw clean package
   

6. Run RouteConverter

   java -jar RouteConverterCmdLine/target/RouteConverterCmdLine.jar
   java -jar RouteConverterLinuxOpenSource/target/RouteConverterLinuxOpenSource.jar
   java -jar RouteConverterMacOpenSource/target/RouteConverterMacOpenSource.jar
   java -jar RouteConverterWindowsOpenSource/target/RouteConverterWindowsOpenSource.jar
   

Have fun!

Christian