JTrak2XML converts dive log information managed with JTrak to generic XML-based formats. These can then be imported into other dive log software applications.
To convert your dive log into one of the XML formats supported, download the latest release (1.0-beta-3), open the disk image file and run the application. Depending on your security settings, you may or may not have to tell OS X that indeed you want to run the application.
While not tested yet, you should also be able to convert JTrak logs on Linux or Windows. Simply download the jar file and run the jar from the commandline in a terminal:
java -jar jtrak2xml.1.0-beta-3.jar
You do need to have JTrak installed on your computer. JTrak2XML does not contain any of the binary code distributed with JTrak, but it relies on it to do the conversion.
JTrak has a limited set of capabilities that are reflected in the exported data. For example, equipment (tanks, suit, computer) is catalogued on a "per-dive" basis. That means that there is no way to tell if that 100 cft. steel tank #1 for dive #1 is the same tank as the one with the same volume and material used in dive #2. JTrak2XML will treat tanks as identical if they are made of the same material, are in the same slot (JTrak allows for up to three tanks), and have the same volume. Likewise with suits: same material and weight makes it the same suit. Since computers have a serial number associated with them (read from the computer directly), they can be managed a bit more intelligently.
Locations in JTrak are described in free text and assigned a country and a time zone. JTrak2XML currently ignores the time zone (although times and dates may well have been converted correctly) and will not create a separate place and location.
JTrak has no option to ignore any surface swim at the end of a dive. JTrak2XML will provide this option in a later release.
JTrak2XML can currently only export all dives.
This project is licensed under the GPL version 3 License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details
- Nick Shore, author of MacDive provided invaluable feeback on the correct structure of the UDDF and MacDive XML formats.