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GPSPRUNE

GpsPrune is an application for viewing, editing and converting coordinate data
from GPS systems. Basically it's a tool to let you play with your GPS data after
you get home from your trip.




Screenshot from a Linux system showing
the map view and altitude profile

It can load data from arbitrary text-based formats (for example, any
tab-separated or comma-separated file) or Xml, or directly from a GPS receiver.
It can display the data (as map view using openstreetmap images and as altitude
profile), edit this data (for example delete points and ranges, sort waypoints,
compress tracks), and save the data (in various text-based formats). It can also
export data as a Gpx file, or as Kml/Kmz for import into Google Earth, or send
it to a GPS receiver.

Some example uses of GpsPrune include cleaning up tracks by deleting wayward
points - either recorded by error or by unintended detours. It can also be used
to compare and combine tracks, convert to and from various formats, compress
tracks, export data to Google Earth, or to analyse data to calculate distances,
altitudes and so on.

Furthermore, GpsPrune is able to display the tracks in 3d format (like the hike
plots on this site) and lets you spin the model round to look at it from various
directions. You can also export the model in POV format so that you can render a
nice picture using Povray. You can also create charts of altitudes or speeds. It
can also load Jpegs and read their coordinates from the exif tags, and export
thumbnails of these photos to Kmz format so that they appear as popups in Google
Earth. If your photos don't have coordinates yet, GpsPrune can be used to
connect them (either manually or automatically using the photo timestamps) to
data points, and write these coordinates into the exif tags.

GpsPrune is written in Java, so as long as your platform has a Java runtime (at
least version 8) including GUI libraries then it should work. It was developed
using eclipse and subversion on Debian Linux, and has been tested on Linux
(Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and others), also on Windows (XP, Vista, 7 and 10), and
on Mac OSX. Yes, it works on Windows 10, as long as you have Java 8 or newer.
Any bug reports, feature requests, suggestions and improvements are welcome.

Currently GpsPrune is at version 24.2 (since June 2024), and is available from
the download page. Meanwhile, development of further features is ongoing and
progress is given in the development page. Again, any help to improve it would
be gratefully received. In particular any examples of data which is incorrectly
parsed, and any updates to the translations offered would be very welcome (see
the translation wiki). GpsPrune is released under the Gnu GPL which specifies
what you can do with the program and its source code.

Version 24.2! As always, the latest version of GpsPrune is available in the
downloads page. For more information, see what's new.


AVAILABLE LANGUAGES

Thanks to volunteer translators, GpsPrune supports the following languages:

Afrikaans English Deutsch Schwiizerdüütsch Español Français Italiano Polski 中文
(Chinese) 日本語 (Japanese) Português (do Brasil) Nederlands Čeština Magyar
(Hungarian) 한국어/조선말 (Korean) Româneşte русский (Russian) Svenska (Swedish)
Català Norsk

The following are partially supported:   Türkçe Ukrainian Indonesian Danish
Farsi Cymraeg (Welsh)

Blue = GpsPrune used, Green = language supported, Yellow = language partially
supported

The map on the right shows where GpsPrune is being used in the world. Blue areas
show where users of GpsPrune have reported its use. Green areas show countries
where the official language is supported by GpsPrune, so it could be used there.
And finally, yellow areas show partial support (for the Turkish, Korean and
Indonesian languages). Feel free to help update this map by reporting your
country either by email or on the forum thread.

Latest additions: Costa Rica (August 2017 by email), Argentina (May 2013 by
email), Spain (January 2012 by email), India (January 2011 from the forum),
Czech Republic (November 2010 by email), Finland (July 2010 by email), Russia
(July 2010 by email), UAE (June 2010 by email), Alaska (June 2010 by email).

Amazingly we're still waiting to hear from anyone using GpsPrune in many of the
central or southern American countries, so please get in touch if you're using
GpsPrune anywhere there. Similarly is there anyone from Ireland, or anywhere in
Africa?

Thanks to all the translators and contributors so far!


KEY FEATURES

Some of the major features of GpsPrune include:

 * Loading of coordinate data from file in any text-based format, with any
   combination of fields and any separator, or in GPX or KML or KMZ or NMEA or
   GeoJSON format. Xml files can be zipped or gzipped. Files can be directly
   loaded from a cable-connected GPS receiver.
 * Importing of huge variety of device-specific formats using GPSBabel.
 * Top-down, zoomable, draggable view of data points including map images from
   Openstreetmap or any similar map tile server, or compatible aerial imagery.
 * Caching of map tiles to disk for faster access and offline use.
 * Altitude profile view or speed profile view.
 * Selection of individual points and ranges to show details.
 * Deletion of duplicates and variable compression of track.
 * Deletion of selected points and ranges, and reversal of ranges.
 * Editing of point data, and creation of tracks and waypoints.
 * Drawing of new tracks, and dragging points to reposition them.
 * Re-ordering of waypoints within data set.
 * Saving of data in specified text format, XML format (GPX, KML, KMZ) or
   sending to GPS receiver.
 * Interactive 3d display of data, including map and/or terrain.
 * Export to POV format for rendering of 3d model by Povray.
 * Loading of photos in jpeg format with or without coordinate data in exif
   tags.
 * Connection of photos to points, and saving of coordinates in exif tags.
   (requires exiftool)
 * Automatic correlation of photos with track points using each photo's
   timestamp.
 * Inclusion of photo thumbnails in KMZ export.
 * Loading, playing and correlation of audio files (such as wav, mp3, ogg) in
   the same way as photos.
 * Generation of charts (eg altitudes, speeds) either on screen or exported to
   SVG file.
 * Launch of browser showing area in various map websites such as Google Maps or
   Openstreetmap.
 * Weather forecasts for the current location, thanks to openweathermap.org.
 * Geocaches near the current location, thanks to opencaching.de.
 * Finding track files which you have saved, filtering by text search, date
   search and location proximity.
 * Multiple Undo.
 * Multiple language support - currently Afrikaans (AF), Catalan (CA), Czech
   (CZ), DE (German), DE_ch (Swiss German), EN (English), ES (Spanish), FR
   (French), Hungarian (HU), IT (Italian), JA (Japanese), Korean (KO), Dutch
   (NL), Norwegian (NO), PL (Polish), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian
   (RU), Swedish (SV) and ZH (simplified Chinese) are supported. With additional
   language files there is also partial support of Turkish (TR) and Ukrainian
   (UK), and basic (extremely limited) support of Indonesian (ID), Danish (DA),
   Welsh (CY) and Farsi (FA).

Some of the things which GpsPrune does not do include:

 * GpsPrune cannot understand proprietary binary data formats.
 * GpsPrune cannot deal with other coordinate systems (eg Gauß-Krüger, SwissGrid
   etc).
 * GpsPrune cannot load any map graphics apart from tiles in the openstreetmap
   format. That means GpsPrune cannot use Google maps or your own scanned maps.

Some other things which GpsPrune does not do include:

 * GpsPrune doesn't require registration, or license keys, or payment, and
   doesn't have any trial periods to expire.
 * GpsPrune doesn't ask for your name or email address.
 * GpsPrune doesn't contain advertisements, spyware, nagware or malware.
 * GpsPrune doesn't have a professional edition or premium features which are
   only available after payment.
 * GpsPrune doesn't "phone home" or use other sneaky tricks to track and monitor
   usage or analyse your data.


REQUIREMENTS

 * Operating system can be any of the Windows platforms, Linux, Mac OSX,
   Solaris, almost anything that supports Java.
 * Java runtime of at least version 8 including Swing libraries.
 * Optional: Java3d libraries for real-time 3d display. (available for Windows,
   Linux and Mac)
 * Optional: Povray for rendering of 3d images. (available for Windows, Linux
   and Mac)
 * Optional: 3d mapping tools such as Google Earth (Windows, Linux and Mac) or
   NASA World Wind (Windows only).
 * Optional: exiftool for saving coordinates to exif information of jpegs.
   (available for Windows, Linux and Mac)
 * Optional: gpsbabel for loading and saving data directly from GPS receivers.
   (available for Windows, Linux and Mac)
 * Optional: gnuplot for drawing charts. (available for Windows, Linux and Mac)

See the dependencies page for how to get these additional programs, or see the
GPS links for other GPS-related software.


WHY GPSPRUNE?

Because you can use it to prune your GPS tracks to remove the unwanted bits.


PLEASE HELP!

GpsPrune is free software and everyone can help. The easiest way to contribute
is to add or fix some of the international translations. See the development
page for details on the three easy ways you can contribute additional
translations or fixes. These changes will then get incorporated into the next
build of GpsPrune. You can also suggest a new language there if yours isn't
currently provided.

Another way to help out is to give feedback on what you like, what you don't
like, what doesn't work for you or what additional features you'd like to see.
Even just feedback that you like it is always welcome! You can send this
feedback via email (use the address at the bottom of the page), or via
GpsPrune's sourceforge forums, or using the Github issues.


MORE INFORMATION

You can see a selection of screenshots of GpsPrune in action or read some
How-tos for GpsPrune functions (this page is now also available in French,
German and Spanish). If you're having problems with running GpsPrune, see
problem-solving for tips. To see how GpsPrune has been reported in the internet,
see internet fame. You can also see a few demo videos, or to get going straight
away, head for the GpsPrune downloads page. Previous versions and change history
are given in the history, and suggested features in the wishlist. For more
general GPS information including related software, see the GPS section.

GpsPrune // Screenshots // How-tos // How-tos (français) // How-tos (deutsch) //
How-tos (español) // User guide // Demo videos // Problem-solving //
Configuration // Download // Dependencies // What's new // Development //
Wishlist // History // Old Screenshots // Internet Fame // User survey // Dev
stats

Page last updated June 2024. Feedback welcome at mail@activityworkshop.net.