Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] convert a psigar file to a .gpx file (Jacob Bax)

[Jacob B. <j...@co...>]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:39:49 -0700, you wrote:

>> I have a number of tracklogs saved with Psigar on a PsionMx5 from my
>> Garmin GPS12. The Mx 5 died 2 years ago. The tracklogs are still in
>> the Psion backup on my pc but untill now I still could not convert the
>> files to gpx.
>> I tried Oziexplorer, easygps, gpsvisualizer and a couple of other
>> programs with no results. I have .trk files, for tracks I think, .rte
>> files, .way files for waypoints and .alm files for the almanac.
>>
>> Most programs can read .trk and .rte files but not my files.
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>
>There isn't really a question in that, so I'll answer what I guess you may
>have
>meant to ask.
>
>GPSBabel has no explicit support for any format called "Psigar";  indeed, my
>mail archive contains no mention of this word.
>
>You didn't include any samples or description of the format, so it's hard to
>say for certain, but the format can probably be added.   The easier the
>format is to understand by a human looking at the data, the easier it is to
>add to GPSBabel.  If you can look at the files and say "oh, of course,
>here's a lat and here's a long and here's a name and there's a timestamp"
>it's probably pretty trivial.  If you have to reverse egineer a binary
>format, it's usually reasonably challenging.
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First of all, I'm not a computer wizard.
When I open a trk file in wordpad or notebook, I see something that
looks like this;

@€$^(*! and a lot of squares,
there is absolutly nothing that looks like a coordinate or name or
timestamp.

I have put the files on my website at

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jacobbax/gps/psigar/

Maybe someone can convert this into a .gpx file or a file that I can
open in oziexplorer, or can advise a program so I can do it myself.
Psigar is a Psion pda program that can download/upload tracks, routes
and waypoints from or to a garmin gps, in my case it was a GPS12 and a
Psion 5MX.
I used it to backup my tracks from a trip to Australia.
At home you can then put them back to the gps and load them in to
oziexplorer or easygps, and maybe in other programs but those were the
only two I had at that time.
Somehow I lost the ozie tracks but the psigar files were still on the
psion when it burned out, and in the psionbackup on my pc.

I tried to contact the maker of psigar but got no reaction.

on the gpsinformation forum they pointed me to this mailinglist.

So maybe someone can help me